Permission Quotes

When you streamline your schedule by making deliberate decisions about tasks and activities that are crucially important you and identify your most important priorities, you give yourself permission to make choices that excite and interest you. You also grant yourself permission to exercise your right to say, “No, thank you.

Though people sort of need your permission to talk to you, they do not really need one to talk about you.

They did not ask my permission for their mediocrity, why should I ask theirs for excellence?

Don't look for society to give you permission to be yourself.

...the reason is that when we look at nature, we receive a sort of permission to be alive in this world...

To be given permission to be confused -- and remain confused -- for as long as it takes would have been a huge gift.

Suffering is not a consequence, it is about permission.

Celebrate your life now, as it unfolds. Turn away from judgement and negative theories about your worth, your potential, and your destiny. See what you already have.

Breaking our silence is powerful. Whether it comes as a whisper or a squeak at first, allow that sense of spaciousness, of opening, allow yourself to trust the bottomlessness, and lean into the dark roar which will light up every cell.Though it may start softly, we build in confidence and skills, we realise we do not need to wait for permission before we open our mouths. We do not need to wait for others to make space for us, we can take it. We do not need to read from others’ scripts or style ourselves in weak comparison. We do not need to look to another’s authority because we have our own. Down in our cores. We have waited so long for permission to know that it was our time, our turn on stage. That time is now. Our voices are being heard into being. They are needed.