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Driven by a passion for empowering everyday creativity, Patti Digh is an American writer, speaker, teacher and consultant whose work bridges artful storytelling with practical inspiration. She blends powerful personal narrative and simple truths to help individuals and organizations embrace empathy, resilience and presence. As author of books like 'Life Is a Verb', Patti builds a legacy of gentle yet profound impact, inviting others to find wonder in the ordinary, courage in the everyday, and community in authentic connection.
"Create inclusion - with simple mindfulness that others might have a different reality from your own."
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"Watch other people for clues about who they are, not just clues about how much they are or are not like you."
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"The shortest distance between two people is a story."
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"Don't say you're a writer if you're not writing. Even if you're writing, don't call yourself a writer. Say instead, 'I write.' It's the verb that's important, not the noun."
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"What if your art could provide everything you ever needed or wanted in life?"
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"We give up our power to the very people who took it away from us in the first place."
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"Perhaps we can recognize our way out of patterns rather than repeating our way out of them."
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"Instead of a book, what if we're actually writing (or not writing) in the margins of our lives? What if our lives are books? What is the sign of our presence? Are we pressing into the margins our interpretations and questions? Are we circling offending verbs and drawing furious arrows to the margin where we scrawl "irony," "frustration," "voiceless," "unfair!" Or do we simply turn the pages, passively receiving what's given, furiously disagreeing but remaining silent about it?"
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"What few rules appear to be in place are all made up."
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"We can either own our circumstances and be creative in them, or we can throw up our hands and say, I cannot be held accountable because the conditions are not ideal."
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"Generosity has little to do with giving gifts, and everything to do with giving space to others to be who they are."
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"Great change doesn't come with official endorsement."
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"We can create a different future - one simple, beautifully mundane, daily decision at a time."
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"Take yourself out of the center of other people's universe - it will free you up and let the universe turn more easily."