Lisa Nichols Quotes

You are the designer of your destiny; you are the author of your story.

When you focus on lack and scarcity and what you don’t have, you fuss about it with your family, you discuss it with your friends, you tell your children that you don’t have enough - “We don’t have enough for that, we can’t afford that” - then you’ll never be able to afford it, because you begin to attract more of what you don’t have. If you want abundance, if you want prosperity, then focus on abundance. Focus on prosperity. (Lisa Nichols) Many people in Western culture are striving for success. They want the great home, they want their business to work, they want all these outer things. But what we found in our research is that having these outer things does not necessarily guarantee what we really want, which is happiness. So we go for these outer things thinking they’re going to bring us happiness , but it’s backward. You need to go for the inner joy, the inner peace, the inner vision first, and then all of the outer things appear. (Marci Shimoff)

While we may love each other and never stop loving each other, so often we stop "showing" each other love.

When your clarity meets your conviction and you apply action to the equation, your world will begin to transform before your eyes.

mostly, the world sees you the way you see yourself.

Self-enrichment is that act of creating a thousand micro wins, so you can have one macro win.

All the people in your life are truly doing the best they can with what they have. People can only love you to the capacity that they are able to love themselves. They can only forgive and embrace you to the capacity that they are able to forgive and embrace themselves. They can only give you what they have the capacity to give. You may think that you deserve more, and you may be correct. But that means nothing if a person simply doesn’t have the ability to give it to you.

Sometimes our talent is plain old everyday people skills that have been lost in our fast-paced society—listening, compassion, a sense of humor, and a positive outlook.

...most people unconsciously dream themselves out of their goals. They dream so far past their current reality—or what's currently possible—that they end up abandoning their goals and damaging their own self-esteem.

People are more comfortable with a familiar discomfort than they are with an unfamiliar new possibility.

Your story is important.

When you give yourself permission to have made mistakes in the past—when you begin to trust yourself about making new choices—that’s when your intuition becomes reliable and trustworthy.

Do you realize that your love, your peace, your joy, your bliss can be so powerful in you that it becomes contagious, and people just want to be around you and they don’t know even know why.

you’ll learn how to recognize when you’re living in the country called “Sad” in the town called “Victimville” on the street called “Hurt Lane” so you don’t stay there longer than you need to.

I have nothing to hide I have nothing to protect I have nothing to prove I have nothing to defend Now..who do I chose to be?

Your thoughts and your feelings create your life. (Lisa Nichols)

Learn how to ask for what you need in a way that leaves your community feeling not only empowered to give you what you ask for, but inspired to do so.

Don’t make your community and loved ones guess what you need. It’s not fair to them. Instead, proactively tell them—in an uplifting way—how to love you.

On the freeway of life, Lisa Watson was stuck at the entrance ramp, trapped behind a cautious old lady in a Buick.

Your best opportunities are out on the skinny branch.

I was willing to be my own rescuer at the risk of your approval.

you need to accept exactly where you are in relationship to your Higher Power and drop the idea that you have to be perfect before you can let God in. The irony is that God is sitting on the doorstep waiting while you think you have to clean house. In reality, He doesn’t care if your house is dirty; He wants to help you clean things up. He’s calling through the door, “If you let me in, I’ll help you vacuum, honey!” He wants to uplift your life.

I now spend my time solely on those activities that only I can do, and even then only on those activities that have the highest return. These

Comparison is and will always be the thief of all joy.

God’s best work occurs in the margins. If we have the courage to step into that wide-open space, God will meet us there.

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Your whole life is a manifestation of the thoughts that go on in your head.

Your job is to fill your own cup, so it overflows. Then you can serve others, joyfully.

Don’t forget, the real glow up is internal.

To live sacred lives requires that we live at the edge of what we do not know. —Anne Hillman

You know people would say we’re both crazy.” “Feh,” he said cheerfully. “Wouldn’t be the first time someone’s said that to me. Besides, they told Galileo he was crazy, right? And probably Einstein. Sometimes you gotta be crazy to make any progress.

The third type of book owner has scribbled in the margins, marked on the front and back covers, turned many a dog-eared page and a few of the books in the collection might even be considered downright worn out. This is the person who owns books. This is the person who is willing to fall in love.

Facing the edge is acknowledging whatever conflict, doubt, frustration, or anxiety that ate at my day and then naming it in a realized prayer, not a pushed-aside hassle. Facing the edge is gleaning the good while placing the not-so-good into God’s hands.

In our laps, the margins are clear and tidy. Three-fourths of an inch on the left and right padding, two inches below, and one inch on top. The clarity provides room for creativity. The structure offers space. But why is it in our lives those blank spaces are so much harder to find? And when we do find them, instead of breathing in that sacred space, why are we so much more likely to fill in that place?  

Creating space to even contemplate the edge is an act of daring in our over-full world. When life is too full, the first step in margin writing is to create a space to breathe and read and gain perspective. Even then, with that bold step, fear can still persist. Once we have space, we don’t always know what to do with it. That space forces us to go deeper—within our heart and into the heart of God. Because we do not know and cannot control what we might unearth in that space, we avoid that sanctuary of sorts at all costs. We fill our lives too full to the brim because we flee the broad range of emotions God asks us to engage. Do we have space for joy? Room for despair? The capacity to lament? The discipline of confession? A place to be refreshed? If we can enter into the sacred space of the margins, then perhaps—with a little push from the divine secrets of harmonious page design—we might even find a place to dance lightly on the edges and design our lives accordingly.

Aaron, I need to talk to you.” “Oh hell. You’re gonna fuck up my good day, aren’t you?

None of us is a Da Vinci, painting the Mona Lisa in the morning and designing helicopters at night. That’s as it should be. No, the bigger problem is that we’re proud of not knowing things. Americans have reached a point where ignorance, especially of anything related to public policy, is an actual virtue.

I know, but the thing is, we’re just assuming we can go out there and find any place we want and claim it as ours.” He shook his head, incredulous. “It’s like we haven’t learned a damn thing from our own history.

A cultural misunderstanding,” Cal said. “That’s been an issue with humanity ever since we first started bumping into one another. That’s why it’s so vital that we get it right this time.

Consider this: on the first day of creation, before God picked up the pen to scribble in stars and moon, sun and sky (and the sea monsters of the deep); the Lord God looked at the margins around and wondered what might come to life in those edges of existence. What we would see as void and empty, God saw as opportunity. Eugene Peterson, in The Message, describes it this way: “Earth was a soup of nothingness, a bottomless emptiness, an inky blackness” (Genesis 1:2).

The very place in scripture where we so often stop reading is precisely the place we need to deeply listen.

God’s writing is in our hands. Scripture tells the story of this God who writes into the margins. As we turn the pages, God’s hope is that we will map out our lives from the force and direction of these words. This script will save the world, redeem nations, overturn kingdoms, sustain breath, and draw out life even from death. The nouns and verbs, the adjectives and adverbs, the pronouns and participles, punctuation and paragraphs will take shape in our lives as we make the connections. The problem is we miss them.

Tell them to who? Why would anyone want to hear my jokes? It was my I-don’t-know-what-I-don’t-know moment.