Best Quotes by Natalie Goldberg (Top 10)
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Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.
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This is your life. You are responsible for it. You will not live forever. Don't wait.
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Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.
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If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.
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Writers end up writing about their obsessions. Things that haunt them; things they can't forget; stories they carry in their bodies waiting to be released.
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Play around. Dive into absurdity and write. Take chances. You will succeed if you are fearless of failure.
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Anything we fully do is an alone journey.
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Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.
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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.
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Handwriting is more connected to the movement of the heart.
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More Natalie Goldberg Quotes
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Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make it so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, or drop a jar of applesauce.
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It is odd that we never question the feasibility of a football team practicing long hours for one game; yet in writing we rarely give ourselves the space for practice.
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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.
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I remember a friend many years ago who had taped a sign to his refrigerator: There's a dream dreaming us. If you try to think about what that means it makes your mind silly, but that silliness is good.
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poems are small moments of enlightenment
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To encounter a fine book and have time to read it is a wonderful thing.
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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.
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