Sark quotes:

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

Invention is the natural outcome of creative thinking.

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

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

I envision a world filled with women traveling alone and meeting each other on the path.

Be an electric eel in a goldfish pond!

Dogs are miracles with paws.

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

Be, the money will come to you.

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.

Fill your life with tiny and large adventurous moments.

I think people feel safer being sad than they do being joyful.

Use lots of exclamation points. They love to be overused.

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

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.

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.

Cats are angels with fur.

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.

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

Creativity suffers under great scrutiny from ourselves or others.

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

I have a strong theory that all the dead people are looking down and laughing and smiling and saying "Oh look, they are so upset about the death thing."

I think it was wonderful when Princess Di died so that everyone could cry in unison. I thought that the crying together was the most powerful gift that she gave in her death.

Being tame is what we're taught: ... put the crayons back, stay in line, don't talk too loud, keep your knees together, nice girls don't... As you might know, nice girls DO, and they like to feel wild and alive. Being tame feels safe, being wild, unsafe. Yet safety is an illusion anyway. We are not in control. No matter how dry and tame and nice we live, we will die. And we will suffer along the way. Living wild is its own reward.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Inside the book between the lines, was a place to rest and absorb the magic

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

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

Marry yourself first -- promise never to leave you!

My body is precious and not separate from my soul.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Use your internal grandmother for guidance and advice.

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

We are each a gift, exactly as we are in this moment, with no improvements!

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.

We're all afraid of suffering or agony or torture. It's only natural in some ways. It's only human, let's say. I don't know how natural it is. It probably is conditioning.

Whatever healing work we each do contributes to the healing of us all.

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.

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

Women need a space to be creative -- creativity thrives in solitude.

You are always on your way to a miracle.

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

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