Quotes from Debbie Ford

If you look to your past or even your present to see why you are here or what your purpose is, you may get stuck in a limited view of yourself. Instead, look beyond your years here on earth, reconnect with the divine, and bring forth your soul's legacy into the present moment.

No one can deny who you are unless you are, in some way, minimizing the power and the force of your divine substance.

Remember all the answers you need are inside of you. You only have to become quiet enough to hear them.

By affirming your own gifts and accomplishments, you build your confidence and increase your ability to build a brighter future.

To get to this place of a warrior's courage, we must give up the stories that have ruled our lives and shatter the self-image we created to affirm our story.

To ignite your confidence and reclaim your courage, you must step into the highest vision of who you are. The only way to do this is to make the journey back into the arms of the Divine.

True courage comes not just from feeling confident and strong, but from being the honest, authentic expression in yourself. Think about how audacious it is to really believe in yourself.

If you have an inner dialogue that disempowers you, it won't change until you yourself replace it with a positive, powerful, internal conversation.

When you don't own an aspect of yourself it runs your life.

It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We

Our pain can be our greatest teacher. It leads us to places we'd never go on our own.

We are only as sick as our secrets.

There is an old saying, 'It takes one to know one.' We see in others what we like and don't like in ourselves. If we embrace these parts of ourselves we will be able to see others as they are, not as we see them through our cloud of projection.

It is the greatest mistake," he said, "to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour. We think that if a man is called Ivan he is always Ivan. Nothing of the kind. Now he is Ivan, in another minute he is Peter, and a minute later he is Nicholas, Sergius, Matthew, Simon. And all of you think he is Ivan.

I realized I only judged people when they displayed a quality I could not accept in myself.

Only by living in reality 100 percent of the time do we have the power to take action, make lasting changes, and become the masters of our lives.

When you are internally driven by not wanting to be something, you often become the opposite. This robs you of your right to choose what you really want to do with your life.

I knew that to accomplish my goal I would need to stay present with my discomfort and my fear of the unknown rather than retreat to the false safety of familiar ground.

We are where we are because of repeated unconscious or unhealthy choices that we've made day after day after day that add up to the reality we find ourselves in.

It's really quite simple: if we want our lives to be different, all we have to do is make different choices.

If you are fearful about discovering your anger, remember that your power is buried along with it.

Your sub-personalities can tell you what work is left unfinished, what you have to do to resolve recurring patterns. They will tell you what you need to do to learn a specific lesson. If you're willing to listen you will find your sub-personalities are funny, resourceful, honest, and forgiving - the wisest people in the universe when it comes to yourself. This is because they're giving you answers that come from within you.

Challenge the person you think you are in order to unveil the person you are capable of becoming.

Freedom is being able to choose whoever and whatever you want to be at any moment in your life.