"We have to accept ourselves in order to……" — Natalie Goldberg
"We have to accept ourselves in order to write. Now none of us does that fully: few of us do it even halfway. Don’t wait for one hundred percent acceptance of yourself before you write, or even eight percent acceptance. Just write. The process of writing is an activity that teaches us about acceptance."
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Natalie Goldberg
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118 Quotes by Natalie Goldberg
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Whether you're keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it's the same thing. What's important is you're having a…
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Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.
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Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we…
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All of us can create if we allow ourselves to.
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Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath.
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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…
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We should notice that we are already supported at every moment. There is the earth below our feet and there…
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Whether we know it or not, we transmit the presence of everyone we have ever known, as though by being…
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That's very nice if they want to publish you, but don't pay too much attention to it. It will toss…
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This is the practice school of writing. Like running, the more you do it, the better you get at it.…
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Wait until you are hungry to say something, until there is an aching in you to speak.
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Actually, every time we begin, we wonder how we did it before, Each time is a new journey with no…
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Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines…
— Karen Armstrong
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Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other…
— Saint Augustine
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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do…
— Marcus Aurelius
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If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets,…
— Teresa of Avila
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
— James A. Baldwin
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Sometimes I have wrinkles, in the morning. It depends on what kind of night that I had. I accept myself…
— Antonio Banderas
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I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a…
— Henry Adams
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But the leaders of the OIC could not even accept Mahathir's proposal, yet they talk about respect and honour.
— Abu Bakar Bashir
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Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.
— Charles Baudelaire
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During the campaign for re-election, Barack Obama at least made vague references to a willingness to accept $3 trillion of…
— Bob Beauprez
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I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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