Sark Quotes

A succulent wild woman is one of any age who feels free to fully express herself in every dimension of her life.

Invent your world. Surround yourself with people, color, sounds, and work that nourish you.

So here we are, in our rare and precious lives, surrounded by gorgeous moments begging to be noticed and celebrated. Go! Celebrate!

We compliment weight loss, monitor our appetites, and shrink ourselves to fit some kind of standard. I wish we could all be the size we actually are. One size doesn't fit all because there are as many sizes as there are women. Let's look closer at the size of our hearts, the width of our souls, and the length of our spirits.

You are sublimely, exactly, how you need to be at this moment.

The way to accomplish the assignment of truly living is to engage fully, richly, and deeply in the living of your dreams. We are made to dream and to live those dreams.

In the midst of our daily lives, we must find the juice to nourish our creative souls.

Cheer up every person you interact with (including yourself).

I absolutely trust that every animal and person has their own very necessary journey.

Be an electric eel in a goldfish pond!

It's like an emotional dance party: Some dances will be your favorites -- others more awkward or difficult to learn. Some will be boring or make you mad. some you will wish you never needed to do again. But AHA! You think. I will dance all the dances I can.

There is room for us all to be how we actually are.

When we focus on the song of our soul and heart, then others will be touched similarly. Sometimes people wonder or worry whether people will like or approve of their creative expression. It's none of your business. It's your business to stay present and focused for the work of your deepest dreams. It might look crooked or strange, or be very odd- but if it delights you, then it is yours, and will find its way into other hearts.

There is no control and perfection is arrogant. Practice messiness, letting go, and doing things badly.

My intention is to live more fully each moment with who - how - I actually am, not who I imagine I will be one day.

Stand tall, laugh loudly, and be who you truly are

No matter how dry and tame and nice we live, we will die. We will also suffer along the way. Living wild is it's own reward.

Buy or borrow self-improvement books, but don't read them. Stack them around your bedroom and use them as places to rest bowls of cookies.Watch exercise shows on television, but don't do the exercises. Practice believing that the benefit lies in imagining yourself doing the exercises.Don't power walk. Saunter slowly in the sun, eating chocolate, and carry a blanket so you can take a nap.

You are always on your way to a miracle.

Nourish your eye and spirit with inspiring things. They will bloom with your tending.

Dogs are miracles with paws.

Learn to be a radiant human, and then shine on others.

Fill your life with tiny and large adventurous moments.

Building your "dream life" is filled with things that can feel like the opposite of a dream: Mistakes Delays Starting over Failure The building part is actually more of a rebuilding that is a continual process. The building is not linear in nature but far more interesting. You might start a creative dream, take the "next step", and find yourself completely bored, dissatisfied, or just not inspired.

There ARE people who won't customarily eat an entire row of cookies, or hear food calling their name from other rooms, or who don't grind up food in the garbage disposal for fear of eating it, or get it back out of the garbage so they could eat it. Of course, my binge eating was just a cover-up for the larger issue: Trying to fill the emptiness

Certainly survival is important- very important- but at some point surviving wasn't enough. I felt ready to complete my surviving journey and start thriving and just living.

Creativity healed me. I don't know that I could think of any word that I get more inspired by than the word healing.

Marry yourself first -- promise never to leave you!

Some say, Life is short. I say; Life is tall-grab a straw!

Our creative dreams are subject to grudge-holding when we decide that other people somehow have made their dreams real and we have not.

You are outrageously wonder-full and deserve to be celebrated!

Cats are angels with fur.

My body is precious and not separate from my soul.

Love imperfectly. Be a love idiot. Let yourself forget any love ideal.

I take every opportunity to tell people how happy my mother is to be dead.

Use your internal grandmother for guidance and advice.

The more that each of us tends our own soul, the more the world will prosper.

I am in my life for a purpose. There is no place to rush to. I am safe. It's all ok.

Choosing succulence is a deliberate act of personal revolution. It means waking up! Embracing your true self, studying your patterns, and letting out your most alive self. We all have one.

I am astonished by the amount and quality of love that is available if we will ask, and participate and show up for life.

If you're not embodying and living in who you are, you're going to have - it's going to be like fragments. You're going to have all these different aspects and sub-personalities that don't get managed and handled. That don't get managed and handled. And I think that's probably a lot of the agony that comes in death.

We are all free spirits. We must choose to practice freedom.

If you let yourself be truly seen, then you can be truly loved.

Forgiveness multiplies and melts rigid postures. Try again and again with self forgiveness. Be the kind parent to yourself you may not have had.

Remember to delight yourself first, then others can be truly delighted.

My godchild Zoe, age 6, suddenly said: "Can you describe what romance is?" I talked about wooing, and yearning, and she sighed and leaned back, "I think that love is my favorite thing in this whole world..." Me too, Zoe, me too.

Creativity suffers under great scrutiny from ourselves or others.

Be, the money will come to you.

Invention is the natural outcome of creative thinking.

When we look at clouds we see different shapes. See all the grace you can.