(14 quotes found)
“Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.”
Natalie Goldberg
“It's the process of writing and life that matters... We are trying to become sane along with our poems and stories.”
“Talk when you talk, walk when you walk, and die when you die.”
“Never underestimate people. They do desire the cut of truth.”
“Read books. They are good for us.”
“We have to look at our own inertia, insecurities, self-hate, fear that, in truth, we have nothing valuable to say. When your writing blooms out of the back of this garbage compost, it is very stable. You are not running from anything. You can have a sense of artistic security. If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.”
“Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce.”
“Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.”
“When you are present, the world is truly alive.”
“Sometimes when you think you are done, it is just the edge of beginning. Probably that's why we decide we're done. It's getting too scary. We are touching down onto something real. It is beyond the point when you think you are done that often something strong comes out.”
