Neale Donald Walsch Quotes

Life is a creation, not a discovery. You do not live each day to discover what it holds for you, but to create it

My most important quality or property is curiosity. And that had its beginning in what I was going to do with my life.

There is no such thing as an unreasonable question, or a silly question, or a frivolous question, or a waste-of-time question. It's your life, and you've got to get these answers.

If you are going to ask yourself life-changing questions, be sure to do something with the answers.

To me that's what Jobs was about. He said at the end of the movie, 'When you realize that the world was created by people no smarter than you, your life will change.' That, to me, is a message for right now and people figuring out what they're going to do with themselves.

I hope people start to look at their lives as the most powerful, creative act they will ever offer this world.

My art is rooted in a single reflection: why am I not as others are? ... my art gives meaning to my life.

I'm thrilled by the fact that I made something out of nothing. There it is! It wasn't there before: there it is - I made it! That's pretty powerful, and that's the power that Buddhists give to every single person.

Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living.

I definitely have come out of my shell a lot more. When you question who you are, you can't be proud of who you are. Now that I'm trying to peel off those layers and really understand who I am, I don't have anything to be shy about.

A lot of my time was spent searching, thinking and planning my life.

He who resolves never to ransack any mind but his own, will be soon reduced, from mere barrenness, to the poorest of all imitations; he will be obliged to imitate himself, and to repeat what he has before often repeated.

I'm not goal-oriented so much as I'm constantly aware of what I'm passionate about, and I'm constantly updating the list. I envision many possible futures for myself where I could be happy, so I just try to keep my passions alive.

I didn't realize when I first started writing how much it would set me free from certain situations in my life. It's incredible.

Sometimes I'm not even aware of some of the issues going on with me in my life until I sit down and start kind of looking for inspiration, trying to find something that inspires that creativity.

The roles I think about and can't stop thinking about - on the subway, when I'm riding my bike, when I'm running - are the things I connect to.

You want to live your life and live it just as fully and as deeply as you can. That's your deep well of reserve. That's where you get all your - the fodder for your work.

I can't tell you what your purpose is, that's got to come from you.

I invented myself.

Writing is a tribute to solitude. It is choosing introversion over extroversion, lonely hours/days/weeks/years over fun and sociability.

Why go through life if you're not going to challenge yourself?

You learn a lot about yourself just by writing it down.

You can go slow. Allow your dreams and goals to change, but live an intentional life.

Boredom means you develop your own interior life.

I've tried to educate myself in the world and what's beautiful and what has meaning and is lasting. Then I just follow my intuition and see how it fits.