Flow Quotes

“I believe we all reach a moment in life when we know we need to move beyond where we are.”
― Laurie E. Smith, Leap With Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice

“At some point, we decide it’s time do to something about our yearnings, to share and live life as who we really are, to accept joy, let go of struggle, and have our lives start flowing instead.”
― Laurie E. Smith, Leap With Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice

“Creative leaps are not always graceful, beautiful, or turn out the way we think they will. We often feel ridiculous. Sometimes we take leaps spontaneously, completely unprepared for the changes that happen when we do. Other times we plan and debate, trying to get all our details perfect first. As soon as our feet have left the ground, we may convince ourselves we’ve made a mistake, simply because we are not used to how leaping feels.”
― Laurie E. Smith, Leap With Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice

“When we take intuitive and creative leaps of courage into the void, into the black holes of our own consciousness, our hearts leap out along with us. Sometimes we’re lucky and when we’re mid-leap, hanging out there in mid-air, we discover that we are not alone and never have been. Life holds out her two hands to meet us and we are caught.”
― Laurie E. Smith, Leap With Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice

“Every now and then, we reach a point in life where we know it’s time for a change. It might start as feeling stuck or bored. We might feel sad about dreams that have not yet come true or frustrated that our old way of doing things isn’t working anymore. Or we may simply wish that we had more time, or more control over the limited time that we do have.
When we experience feelings like this, it’s natural to think they are personal, about us, who we are and the unique details of our lives. The truth is, however, we are not alone. People all over the world right now in this exact moment are having similar thoughts and feelings.”
― Laurie E. Smith

“It’s easy to get lured into thinking that the answer is out there somewhere, in some magical program or guidebook, in some grand gesture or action we need to take. In my experience, the first step—often the most important leap of all—is one we take within.”
― Laurie E. Smith, Leap With Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice

“The key to making a change, to getting our lives to really flow, to following our inner callings always begins with an inner commitment to honor who we really are. It’s a private, solitary act. We start a conversation—a conversation with our Truest Selves.”
― Laurie E. Smith, Leap With Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice

“We each have a small, still voice within that guides us, even when we are distracted by louder ones.”
― Laurie E. Smith, Leap With Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice

“Our ability to create is something we all have in common, no matter who we are.”
― Laurie E. Smith, Leap With Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice

“We can create a story that scares us, keeping us frozen or stuck, or we can create one of hope, luring us out of our complacency to the next best thing.”
― Laurie E. Smith, Leap With Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice

“The True Self is an artist.”
― Laurie E. Smith, Leap With Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice

“Creativity is about experiencing life in a way that others may not in any given moment, and then having the courage to share.”
― Laurie E. Smith, Leap With Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice

“We each have unique gifts, and an inner voice—the voice of the Truest Self—calling us to live life as only we can.”
― Laurie E. Smith

“You have an important perspective and story to tell, and unique gifts that the world really needs.”
― Laurie E. Smith, Leap With Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice

“Having an authentic, honest relationship with who we really are is not a one-time thing, something we master then move on to the next thing. It is a way of living and moving through the ever-changing world.”
― Laurie E. Smith, Leap With Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice

“It was almost as if, in all those many years of not writing on a regular basis, the words had stacked up by the door, clogging things up, making me feel stuck. Now that I started to write again, the door opened and the waiting words tumbled out, relieved to be set free.”
― Laurie E. Smith, Leap With Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice

“It's not up to us where our inner voice is calling us to go. Instead, our job is simply to get out of the way.”
― Laurie E. Smith, Leap With Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice

“Our creative journeys are different every time, and different for each of us. Typically, they are solitary ventures, private intimate adventures for one.”
― Laurie E. Smith, Leap With Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice

“No matter how it happens, as our creative thread evolves, something new begins to be released on its own into the world. The very fact that we, as its guardians, have brought it out into the light changes our history and our own personal perceptions of what is possible for us and our lives.”
― Laurie E. Smith, Leap With Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice

“Finding each other—deep, kindred, intuitive, creative spirits—really helps.”
― Laurie E. Smith, Leap With Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice

“Creative seeker finding seeker—others who know the joy and the pain, the delight, and the struggle, and who are so busy diving deep for their own threads that they have no desire to keep us from finding ours—changes lives.”
― Laurie E. Smith, Leap With Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice

“Even during the most solitary of creative missions, we are never alone. As we learn to trust the value of our own inner threads, we also start to understand that it’s not just the threads within us that are gold, so too are those within each person on the face of the earth. We also come to know, whether we at first understand it or not, that all our threads are part of the same interconnected story.”
― Laurie E. Smith, Leap With Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice

“When we find people who are willing to talk about their own journeys of feeling called, of navigating their messy closets of pain and potential, of discovering their own creative sparks, suddenly we realize that our creative adventure is not a journey for one, but for One. This realization can be incredibly healing, not just for each of us personally, but also for the world.”
― Laurie E. Smith, Leap With Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice

“Being creative and intuitive means being open, like a wide-open invitation for everything life has to offer to have its way with us, from miracles to deep pain.”
― Laurie E. Smith, Leap With Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice

“We might forget that the simplest motions of our lives can help us transcend suffering and give birth to beauty—sending out into the world something brand new.”
― Laurie E. Smith, Leap With Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice

“Instead of holding on tight or trying to fix what is broken, we can let life be what it is and simply fold it into our imaginings.”
― Laurie E. Smith, Leap With Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice

“Rather than trying to hold it all, we can let life’s input flow through us. We can alchemize it into something beautiful, even the pain.”
― Laurie E. Smith, Leap With Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice

“There are no rules on the journey of life, no guidebook, no answers that some expert is going to hand down to us if we just wait long enough.”
― Laurie E. Smith, Leap With Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice

“Living creatively and intuitively is about allowing ourselves to be who we really are and to bring into form something that has never existed before.”
― Laurie E. Smith, Leap With Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice

“There is no one more qualified than you to figure out how to manifest your own personal turning point, a miracle in your own life.”
― Laurie E. Smith, Leap With Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice