True Voice Quotes

“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

“We each have our own path, our own formula to follow.”
― Laurie E. Smith, Leap With Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice

“Creative peaks come and go like waves; they rise and fall. If we are paying attention and willing to go along for the ride without knowing where we will end up or even whether we will survive (at least the version of who we think we are), well then, creating is just the thing.”
― Laurie E. Smith, Leap With Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice

“The process becomes the goal—the gift that saves us regardless of where it takes us, or others’ interpretations of our work and who they think we should be.”
― Laurie E. Smith, Leap With Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice

“The highs and lows of a creative sojourn—tuning into and following where our True Selves are guiding us to go—are completely natural, but when they happen to us, we may struggle, doubting our inner voice or the very idea of who we are and what we have to offer.”
― Laurie E. Smith, Leap With Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice

“We need communities of support, people who know our struggle even if we don’t officially know each other.”
― Laurie E. Smith, Leap With Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice

“The more we reach out, share our insights, and offer support, the more we come to understand that we are not actually leaping alone but creating something beautiful as we all leap together.”
― Laurie E. Smith, Leap With Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice

“I believe connecting with our inner voice and sharing what we hear is one of the surest paths to peace, happiness, and the healing of hearts and minds.”
― Laurie E. Smith, Leap With Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice

“The world needs your voice, your gifts, and your message. The world needs you.”
― Laurie E. Smith, Leap With Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice

“When in doubt, listen to your body. When something is most helpful to us on our own individual journeys, our bodies often relax. We might even feel something shift, as if we’ve become lighter.”
― Laurie E. Smith, Leap With Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice

“Resistance can represent a yearning to lovingly get to know parts of ourselves or our stories that we often avoid.”
― Laurie E. Smith, Leap With Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice

“Resistance can also be a reminder to go slow, seek compassion, and take some extra time to integrate a new idea.”
― Laurie E. Smith, Leap With Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice

“The key is having respect for resistance when it comes up for us, being kind to ourselves, taking breaks, and trusting our instincts about our own pace, and what is in our best interest.”
― Laurie E. Smith, Leap With Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice

“Not everything is right for all of us, and that’s completely okay. We are all on different paths, with different experiences, and need different things at different times.”
― Laurie E. Smith, Leap With Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice

“Something powerful happens when we move thought into action.”
― Laurie E. Smith, Leap With Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice

“Our relationship with the soft, still voice within is like any other—the more energy we put into it, the more gifts we receive.”
― Laurie E. Smith, Leap With Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice

“It’s amazing the synchronicities that can happen when we embark on a journey with open hearts, with supportive friends by our side, ready for adventure.”
― Laurie E. Smith, Leap With Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice

“Our creative inner voice can become a loving companion, supporting us in taking leaps.”
― Laurie E. Smith, Leap With Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice

“You are the expert when it comes to your own life, and the leaps your True Self is calling you to take.”
― Laurie E. Smith, Leap With Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice

“As you find your own path, trust your intuition. Honor what is in your best interest and where your intuitive, creative voice is guiding you to go.”
― Laurie E. Smith, Leap With Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice