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Creativity arises out of the state of thoughtless presence in which you are more awake than when you are immersed in thinking.

The mind loves to be given more. More of anything. It's looking for more of whatever it is to feel more fulfilled. The mind wants more in order to give "the story of me" a more satisfying conclusion. The mind wants more to develop the concept of "me"; to live life to the full. Filling yourself up with more of anything gives the illusion of filling yourself up, and making your life fulfilling. But "more" doesn't make a person fulfilled and at peace. Ultimately to feel at peace one needs to enter a state where you are free of the thought of needing more; free of thought, because thought that possesses you and pretends to *be* you is a dreadful thing. Rise above thought, and be conscious without thought. Peace is obtained by simply being in a state of thoughtless alertness, awareness and consciouseness.

There are deeper things in life than for things to have to be "interesting".
A sunrise is not interesting. It's vaster and deeper than that.

There are deeper things in yourself than what's interesting. But most people haven't found that dimension within themselves. They are stuck in interesting, and if you're stuck in "interesting" then you are also stuck in "boring", because a lot of the time life isn't that interesting, and then you're always looking for the next interesting thing to fill your mind.

You can go to a lot of places to fill your mind up with information: school, university, books, tv, the internet.
But maybe something that's important to learn is to stop worrying about life being interesting, and just Be and enjoy the moment, even if it is not particularly interesting. It is possible. Just Be. Be in the now.

In Shakespeare's words, “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”

You might say, “What a dreadful day!”
Without realizing that the cold, the wind, and the rain or whatever condition you react to are not dreadful.
They are as they are.
What is dreadful is your reaction, your inner resistance to it, and the emotion that is created by that resistance.

- Eckhart Tolle

“Just be yourself” is good advice, but it can also be misleading. The mind will come in and say, “Let's see. How can I be myself?” Then, the mind will develop some kind of strategy: “How to be myself.” Another role. “How can I be myself?” is, in fact, the wrong yourself. It implies you have to do something to be yourself. But “how” doesn't apply here because you are yourself already.
Stop adding unnecessary baggage to who you already are.
“But I don't know who I am. I don't know what it means to be myself.”
If you can be absolutely comfortable with not knowing who you are, then what's left is who you are – the Being behind the human, a field of pure potentiality other than something that is already defined.

Give up defining yourself – to yourself or to others.

Don’t be concerned with how others define you.
When they define you, they are limiting themselves, so it's their problem!

Being at peace and being who you are, that is, being yourself, are one.
Peace, after all, is the end of the ego.

"People are not nouns but processes".

Loud/ quiet/ confident/ not confident/ sensitive/ insensitive etc - You may be one of these qualities right now, but since humans are ever-changing and ever-evolving this point is only one part of a long process that is your life.

The Truth is inseparable from who you are. Yes, you are the truth. If you look for it elsewhere, you will be deceived every time. The very Being that you are is Truth. Jesus tried to convey that when he said, “I am the way and the truth and the life.”

The ultimate truth of who you are is not in I am this or I am that, but I Am.

Ego is identification with form.  Ego is saying "I am this" or "I am that" - where this or that can be religion, skin colour, personality traits, emotions, patterns of thought or patterns of behaviour and more. When there is nothing to identify with anymore, who are you? When your sense of Beingness, of I Am, is freed from its entanglement with form and labels: Spirit is released from its imprisonment in matter. You realize your essential identity as formless, as an all-pervasive Presence, of Being prior to all forms, all identifications. You realize your true identity as consciousness itself, rather than what consciousness had identified with.

Spiritual realization is to see clearly that what I perceive, experience, think, or feel is ultimately not who I am.

Descartes said: “I think therefore I am” but Sartre noticed that the part of consciousness that feels “I am” isn’t the same part that thinks. When you are aware that you are thinking, that awareness is not part of thinking. It is a different dimension of consciousness. And it is that awareness that says “I am.” If there were nothing but thought in you, you wouldn't even know you are thinking. 

Defining yourself through thought is limiting yourself.
Thought can at best point to the truth, but it never is the truth.
That's why Buddhists say “The finger pointing to the moon is not the moon.”

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it. Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.

Don't seek happiness. If you seek it, you won't find it, because seeking it is the antithesis of happiness. Happiness is ever elusive, but freedom from unhappiness is attainable now, by facing what is rather than making up stories about it. Unhappiness covers up your natural state of wellbeing and inner peace, the source of true happiness.

- Eckhart Tolle

“Life isn’t as serious as your mind makes it out to be.”
- Eckhart Tolle