Natalie Goldberg Quotes

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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• Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Good
  • Important
  • Remember

• It is so hard to make important decisions that we have a great urge to reduce them to rules.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Great
  • Important
  • Rules

• We don't need to clear the 4 to 6 percent of the Earth's surface remaining in tropical rain forests, with most of the animal and plant species living there.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Earth
  • Animal
  • Rain

• Nothing earth-shattering has happened in men's fashion. How much can you do with men's clothes?

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Men
  • Earth
  • Fashion

• I want to have some effect on the way the world works in whatever way I can, and I also want to have the power to help get the movies that I think are important made.

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • World
  • Important
  • Power

• Where you record is very important. It can't be too nice, it can't be too expensive, it can't have a view to an ocean or a field.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Important
  • Nice
  • Ocean

• Our curses on them that boil the eggs too hard! What use is an egg that is hard to any person on earth?

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Earth
  • Eggs
  • Egg

• You aren't your work, your accomplishments, your possessions, your home, your family... your anything. You're a creation of your Source, dressed in a physical human body intended to experience and enjoy life on Earth.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Work
  • Family

• I just feel it's important to make sure that behind the scenes is as filled with diverse voices as in front of the scene is.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Important
  • Feel
  • Behind

• Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Important
  • Future
  • Lost

• A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Kind
  • Purpose
  • Lie

• The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Nature
  • Earth
  • Flower

• You can't have too much of everything, you must have a balance, that's very important.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • Important
  • Balance
  • Too Much

• My speech is really important to me, but the thing is at the moment it can't be more important than my singing. Until I'm an established name all over the world, my speech won't be more important than my music.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • World
  • Music
  • Important

• I finished my high school. I think an educate is very, very important.

  

  Yao Ming
  • Important
  • School
  • High

• We humans lack imagination, to the point of not even knowing what tomorrow's important things will look like.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Important
  • Imagination
  • Look

• A lot of people forget how important it is to be creative. We get caught up in getting ahead and in day-to-day minutiae. But creativity is a fundamental mode of expression, as is being tenacious and standing by your own convictions and passions, even if it's not the 'popular' choice.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • People
  • Up
  • Important

• Rule-following, legal precedence, and political consistency are not more important than right, justice and plain common-sense.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Important
  • Political
  • Justice

• For pain words are lacking. There should be cries, cracks, fissures, whiteness passing over chintz covers, interference with the sense of time, of space ; the sense also of extreme fixity in passing objects ; and sounds very remote and then very close ; flesh being gashed and blood sparting, a joint suddenly twisted - beneath all of which appears something very important, yet remote, to be just held in solitude.” — Virginia Woolf, The Waves

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Important
  • Pain
  • Cry

• It is said by the Eldar that in water there lives yet the echo of the Music of the Ainur more than in any substance that is in this Earth; and many of the Children of Ilúvatar hearken still unsated to the voices of the Sea, and yet know not for what they listen.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Music
  • Children
  • Earth

• 'Let’s waste a little time, hmm?''A nice euphemism, sir,' she mused distantly. He smiled. 'Come and help me think of better ones.' She smiled and they both looked at each other. There was a long pause.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Time
  • Long
  • She

• It had always seemed to Louis that a fundamental desire to take postal courses was being sublimated by other people into sexual activity.

  

  Malcolm Bradbury
  • People
  • Desire

• Nobody needs a smile so much as the one who has none to give. So get used to smiling heart-warming smiles, and you will spread sunshine in a sometimes dreary world.

  

  Lawrence G. Lovasik
  • World
  • Heart
  • Smile

• 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.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
  • Important
  • Earth
  • Stress