Debbie Ford quotes

Born
October 1, 1955.

Died
February 17, 2013.

Occupation
Author.

Debbie Ford was an American self-help author most known for New York Times best-selling book, The Dark Side of the Light Chasers (1998).

Compassion is the key to living outside the confines of your lower self.
– Debbie Ford

If you wish to fly to new heights, begin by setting your sights on a destination you can reach and then create a flight plan, a map, that will be your guide.
– Debbie Ford

Your soul’s mission is to serve in the grandest way it can. Divine plans lie imprinted in your inner world, and there are important lessons for you to learn and share on this journey to your most magnificent self.
– 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.
– Debbie Ford

As you stop trying to forcibly manage the thoughts, beliefs and actions that arise from your mind and ask instead to be guided by a source greater than yourself, you will find a world of support showing up in surprising ways.
– Debbie Ford

Real change happens when you feel genuinely inspired, turned on by possibility and unwilling to settle for anything less.
– Debbie Ford

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

To transcend limitations and form positive new patterns of life based on who you know you can be rather than who you were yesterday, you must give up the modes of thinking, feeling and behaving that only keep you chained to your past.
– Debbie Ford

Your soul is infinitely creative. It is alive and expansive in nature. It is curious and playful, changing with the tides of time.
– Debbie Ford

I believe my love of beauty and my ability to see what works is a gift I was given by God.
– Debbie Ford

To live in the light of a new day and an unimaginable and unpredictable future, you must become fully present to a deeper truth – not a truth from your head, but a truth from your heart; not a truth from your ego, but a truth from the highest source.
– Debbie Ford

Self-awareness is the ability to take an honest look at your life without any attachment to it being right or wrong, good or bad.
– Debbie Ford

Within ourselves, there are voices that provide us with all the answers that we need to heal our deepest wounds, to transcend our limitations, to overcome our obstacles or challenges, and to see where our soul is longing to go.
– Debbie Ford

When you take the time to cleanse your physical body of accumulated stress and toxicity, you are rewarded with increased vitality and optimal health.
– Debbie Ford

Throughout your life, you’ve been influenced by what you have done in the past, what you have been told you can and cannot do, and what your present circumstances seem to dictate.
– Debbie Ford

If I had to name my greatest value in life, it would be beauty.
– Debbie Ford

Growth is usually uncomfortable. If you’re looking for comfort, you will more than likely feel tired and old earlier than you want, and the misery of your caged soul will always be looming nearby.
– Debbie Ford

We are spiritual beings whether we want to admit it or not, and inherent in our DNA is a design to return us home – home to our true essence, our greatest self, our limitless self.
– Debbie Ford

Congruence, integration, responsibility and integrity are the values that I stand for.
– Debbie Ford

Self-acknowledgment boosts your emotional and spiritual immunity, giving you the strength you need to release the past and rise above fear, doubt or resignation.
– Debbie Ford

You are on a soulful path that asks you to step into the greatest version of yourself. It is a sacred gift to shine your brightest light, not just in your moments of glory, but each day.
– Debbie Ford

As you say goodbye to lingering disappointments and unattended grief, you will discover that every person, situation and painful incident comes bearing gifts.
– Debbie Ford

It is still breathtaking to me to watch people bring love, preciousness and kindness to their inner world, allowing the light of God to shine through their eyes so that the beauty of their soul can come forth.
– Debbie Ford

You can satisfy your soul’s mission by committing to leaving something behind on this planet that will make a difference to those who come after you.
– Debbie Ford

What I would say to anybody facing any life challenge or disease is that that is courage – to choose life, to keep looking at what’s good.
– Debbie Ford

It’s easy to love yourself when you feel good enough, when you feel special enough, when you’re loved enough, when you have enough money, and you’re appreciated.
– Debbie Ford

When you master the art of being fully awake to this moment, you bestow a precious gift on your soul – the experience of love. Being present is the art of the soul.
– Debbie Ford

It would be impossible to estimate how much time and energy we invest in trying to fix, change and deny our emotions – especially the ones that shake us at our very core, like hurt, jealousy, loneliness, shame, rage and grief.
– Debbie Ford

Fear is the culprit that robs us of our greatest lives. And although it’s mostly made up or a learned behavior from our past, almost everybody I’ve ever met in my life struggles with fear.
– Debbie Ford

As you step into your limitless self, you might be confronted with old habits and patterns that are not necessarily based in truth. These old ways of being show up because you have repeated many of them thousands of times.
– Debbie Ford

Devotion begins at home, inside your own awareness.
– Debbie Ford

Maybe you’ve decided you’re not a genius, that you’re not brilliant, that you’re not prosperous, that you’re not wonderful, that you’re not lovable. Well, you know what? You’re both: you’re unlovable and you are lovable. And they both need equal time.
– Debbie Ford

While your past can inform you and your future can inspire you, the moment of choice exists in the here and now.
– Debbie Ford