You know what I love?
Quotes.
You know what else I love?
Ninjas.
So today I thought, hey, why not put the two together?
Not because these quotes are actually related to ninjas in any direct way, but moreso because I’d rather hit myself in the face, like, 150 times than publish a boring post titled “27 Quotes to Help You Live Your Best Life!”
Also, because everyone loves a picture of a pink ninja. (Am I right?!)
Read on for the awesomest quotes of all time, loosely tied to the three simple ninja-laws of life: Listen to your self, luv the questions, and luv yourself.
p.s. To top off the weirdness, I’ve decided to make the quotes rainbow colored, because, hey, why not?! SOUNDS LIKE FUN!!!! [I guess I'll skip the yellow, though, because no one can really read yellow. In fact, if you are reading this right now, I congratulate you on your awesome yellow-reading skills.]
1. L I S T E N to yer S E L F
In case you didn’t know this already, ninjas listen deeply for the voice within. They know that others can offer guidance and wisdom, but in the end their choices must ultimately come from that whisper-of-a-roar that already lives inside them.
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Don’t let the noise of other people’s opinions drown out your own inner voice.
- Steve Jobs
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If you can see your path
laid out in front of you
step by step,
you know it’s not your path.
Your own path you make
with every step you take.
That’s why it’s your path.
- Joseph Campbell
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Only YOU know what is right for you. Only YOU know what brings you joy. Others have their suggestions, but they do not know what you know.
- Carol Adrienne
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This is your world. shape it or someone else will.
- Gary Lew
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Life is too short to be living somebody else’s dream.
- Hugh Hefner (WAIT, did I really just quote Hugh Hefner?! Pleasesayno.)
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When I wake up every day, I want to be able to say that I’m showing up fully in this world as myself. I want to be able to say that in every second of my life, in every possible way, I am living and breathing and becoming that person who I’m meant to become.
- Therese Schwenkler [Find Your Life's Freaking Purpose in One Minute or Less]
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Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
- Carl Jung
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If you follow someone else, you are ignoring your own path.
- Fortune Cookie
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To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
- e e cummings
* * *
As soon as you
trust
yourself,
you will know
how
to
live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
* * *
The world is full of people that have stopped listening to themselves or have listened only their neighbors to learn what they ought to do, how they ought to behave, and what the values are they should be living for.
- Joseph Campbell
2. LUV THE Q U E S T I O N S
Ninjas know that answers are overrated. But questions? Questions are not. Ask them, live them, love them.
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Question everything generally thought to be obvious.
- Dieter Rams
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Curiosity killed the cat.
A cat without curiosity is no cat at all.
- Therese Schwenkler
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The real trick to life is not to be in the know, but to be in the mystery.
- Fred Wolf
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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
- Albert Einstein
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Asking the right questions is infinitely more important than knowing the right answers.
- Therese Schwenkler
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Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart & try to love the questions themselves.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
* * *
The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he’s one who asks the right questions.
- Claude Lévi-Strauss
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It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
- James Thurber
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It’s ok to be lost. It’s ok to let go of needing all the answers. It’s not going to kill you— in fact, it just might bring you to life.
- Therese Schwenkler [Why It's OK to be Lost and Confused]
3. LUV Y O U R S E L F
Ninjas know how awesome they are. Do you?! In case you’ve temporarily forgotten, here are some reminders. Read it and believe it!
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You are a gift. And so is that which you offer. But you– yourself, just as you are. That’s the real gift.
- Aletheia Schmidt
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Today I have nothing to prove.
Today I am who I am, and who I am is more than enough.
I am worthy & amazeballs & awesomesauce defined.
Today I am me-to-the-max.
- Therese Schwenkler [Stuff Stupid College Girls Do]
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Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.
- Dr. Suess
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You could travel across the globe, from London to New York to Ibiza, and there would never be— never could be— even an inkling of external glamour that could ever outshine your soul. That is how beautiful— how precious— how inherently, spectacularly, unimaginably worthy you are.
- Therese Schwenkler [The Great Cosmo Hoax]
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You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn’t have been complete without you.
- Frederich Buechner
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You– you are a rad motherf*&^r.
Yep, just because.
For no other reason except that you are.
And that’s just the way it is.
And that’s the way it always will be.
You, my friend– you need no validation.
There are no questions; there are no ifs, ands, or buts about it.
You just are.
- Therese Schwenkler [The Sexy Pirate Story]
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You matter – you matter deeply, tremendously, unimaginably. Without you, the world would be incomplete.
- Therese Schwenkler [Shattering the Illusion of All Alone]
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Now, my dear friend– GO FORTH AND BE AWESOME LIKEA NINJA!
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