Natalie Goldberg Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

• The muscles of writing are not so visible, but they are just as powerful: determination, attention, curiosity, a passionate heart.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Determination, Powerful, Heart

  Natalie Goldberg (2009). “Old Friend from Far Away: The Practice of Writing Memoir”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

• 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. In summer, we work hard to make a tidy garden, bordered by pansies with rows or clumps of columbine, petunias, bleeding hearts. Then we find ourselves longing for the forest, where everything has the appearance of disorder; yet we feel peaceful there.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Summer, Falling In Love, Fun

  Natalie Goldberg (2011). “Wild Mind: Living the Writer’s Life”, p.6, Open Road Media

• Our lives are at once ordinary and mythical. At the same instant we have these magnificent hearts that pump through all sorrow and all winters we are alive on the earth.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Heart, Winter, Sorrow

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.55, Shambhala Publications

• Too often we take notes on writing, we think about writing but never do it. I want you to walk into the heart of the storm, written words dripping off hair, eyelids, hanging from hands.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Writing, Heart, Thinking

  Natalie Goldberg (2009). “Old Friend from Far Away: The Practice of Writing Memoir”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

• Handwriting is more connected to the movement of the heart.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Heart, Movement, Handwriting

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.8, Shambhala Publications

• The deepest secret in our heart of hearts is that we are writing because we love the world.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Writing, Heart, Secret

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.154, Shambhala Publications

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