Even as a child, I was fascinated by quotes. I always found it amazing how much wisdom and meaning could fit into often just a single sentence. And I incredibly enjoy collecting good quotes. Some time ago, I started bringing this collection together. What began as a paper-based system evolved into an electronic collection. It's not complete yet. It's constantly growing. I'm always discovering new quotes that move me: in books or films, at presentations by colleagues, in conversations, from participants during workshops, in interviews, in newspapers. And I don't just collect these quotes; I also really enjoy incorporating them in various contexts. For trainings or coaching sessions, as takeaways for coachees, as food for thought on a topic. In this article, you'll find some of my favorite quotes. Do you have any too? Then simply write a similar article with your favorite quotes and share it here in the comments. I'm excited 🙂  

Quotes from me

• In every problem, a goal is hidden. Problems are actually disguised needs; they show you what you need. (Lorena Hoormann)
• Second chances are part of life: It's not about changing immediately. Rather, it's important to learn how to gradually move away from the patterns that need to be changed, step by step. Towards the desired image. (Lorena Hoormann)
• One also arrives at solutions outside of prefabricated solutions. (Lorena Hoormann)
• The brain knows no subjunctive! The principle of literalness applies; it is always in the here and now. Steer your brain's experience towards the positive! (Lorena Hoormann)
• The brain tries to close open questions for us, much like a catchy tune, the question repeats itself until the brain knows an answer. Write down the question, then the brain can let go more easily. (Lorena Hoormann)
• One must allow oneself to be human. (Lorena Hoormann)
• I can control what and how much others learn about me and when, by considering what I'm willing to reveal. I'm in control. (Lorena Hoormann)
• All systems have within them everything they need to find the best possible path. Sometimes, one just needs to ask the right questions.
• Sometimes you just need the right question to remember everything you already know how to do. (Lorena Hoormann)
• Avoid deciding: Just do. (Lorena Hoormann)
• Take the stumbling blocks of your past and build them into a staircase that leads you to your desired future.
• There are so many possibilities in a „mistake“ if you only dare to look more closely.

Quotes from people around me

• Belief in our abilities is the strongest predictor of our success. (Christine Hoffmann)
• See what works and do more of it; if something isn't working, do something else. (Christine Hoffmann)
• All roads lead to Rome. But I have to know *the* Rome.
• For us, challenges or when something doesn't turn out the way we've always done it, aren't so bad. That encourages us to rethink things.
• We want security, connection, and belonging, along with growth and autonomy, in equal measure. Therefore, we spend our whole lives seeking the connection from the womb: connected by a nurturing umbilical cord, yet still able to grow. (Christine Hoffmann)
• Be good to yourself, for we spend our whole lives with only one person, and that is ourselves.
• ...Trust the Process (Sigrun Gudmundsdottir)
• If „it“ doesn't work... what does „it“ need to work?
• When we consider our desired future in great detail, many wonderful things that we can still do quickly come to mind.

Quotations from historically influential „personalities“

• The solution doesn't care how the problem came to be.
• Goals are like locomotives, pulling solutions behind them.
• Everything that is made of leather can be guided by my will.
• You can't get very far in the right direction on a steamship going in the wrong direction.
• Human passions have mysterious ways, in children and adults. Those who are affected by them cannot explain them, and those who do not know them have no understanding of them at all. (Michael Ende)
• Our desires are the anticipations of the abilities that lie within us. Precursors of what we shall be capable of achieving.
• We feel a longing for that which we already possess in silence. Thus, a passionate anticipation transforms the truly possible into a dreamt reality.
• We do not need to live on as we lived yesterday. Let us free ourselves from this view, and a thousand possibilities will invite us to new life.
• Thoughts often—like children and dogs—want you to take them for a walk outdoors. (Christian Morgenstern)
• Problems cannot be solved with the same mindset that created them. (Albert Einstein)
• The future we want, we must invent. Otherwise, we will get one we don't want.
• The storm is getting stronger and stronger. - That doesn't matter, I am too. (Pippi Longstocking)
• Ways are made by walking.
• Small steps can lead to big changes. (G. Gersch)
• Life is 101% what happens to you and 901% how you react to it. (Charles Rozell Swindoll)
• A dream is nothing more than a possible reality that is just waiting to happen.
• Normal is just a setting on the washing machine. (Whoopi Goldberg)
• How can I know what I think until I hear what I say? (Franca Parianen)
• No plan survives contact with the enemy.
• Learning is finding out what we already know.
• ...to move away from the obsession with feasibility, towards an attitude that doesn't unnecessarily stand in the way of miracles.
• That's what it's really about, isn't it? To see clearly, sometimes all it takes is a change in perspective. (A. de Saint Exupéry)
• You are wonderful! (Your Self)
• No one is responsible for the problem, but everyone is responsible for the solution. (Ben Furman)
• The future belongs to those who believe in the truth of their dreams. (Eleanor Roosevelt)
• The best way to predict the future is to create it.
• Give every day the chance to become the greatest day of your life. (Mark Twain)
• We do not need the will to believe, but the desire to find out. (William Wordsworth)
• The extraordinary shines for us in the grand. We find it in the small.
• Health, therefore, is not a condition, a possession, or even a goal, but the walking on a path – a path that is only formed by walking it. (Schipperges)  
• The more you appreciate and celebrate your life, the more there is in your life to celebrate.
• „What made you happy today?“ A powerful question that one should ask oneself more often. When you think bright thoughts, you attract bright things to yourself. (Prentice Mulford)
• The stars of our happiness lie within ourselves.       
• A fairy godmother, straight out of a storybook. She wrote it herself. (Disney’s film „The Fairies“)
• Everyone fails to be who they are supposed to be [...]. We measure a person, a hero, by how well they succeed at being who they truly are. (Avengers “Endgame”)
• Don't worry about your future. Make the present good and the future will bloom. (Sadhguru)
• In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few.
• The sun is the flavor carrier for life (Jolanta Hapke)

Quotes by Unknown

• ’Let me help you out of the water, or you'll drown!' said the friendly monkey, carefully placing the fish on the tree. (Anonymous)  
• When the wind of change blows, some build walls and others build sails.
• Great happiness likes small things.
• Hold on to what makes your soul happy. (Anonymous)
• Follow your dreams, they know the way. (Anonymous)