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.

Natalie Goldberg

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StressLieDownEarthImportant

The president and Republicans in Congress have repeatedly promised to revisit Social Security privatization after November. But Americans have already said, loud and clear, that they don't want Social Security to be privatized or dismantled.

Jim Clyburn

SecurityCongressSaidWantClear

From 1936 on, I have taken more falls than any other 20 comedians put together. From the time I was 21, I've taken them on everything from clay courts to cement to wood floors, coming off pianos, going out a two-story window, landing on Dean, falling into the rough. You do that and you're gonna have problems.

Jerry Lewis

TimeTogetherWindowProblemsYou

You need to listen to the people experiencing the problems, and their ideas need to crowd out the words of the 'can't be done-ers.'

Ann Cotton

WordsPeopleIdeasProblemsYouOut

History serves as a model not only of who and what we are to be, we learn what to champion and what to avoid.

Steve Berry

HistoryChampionLearnOnlyAvoid

You don't meet many comics who came from rich families or were captain of the football team and had a nice car.

Sinbad

CarFootballTeamRichYouNice

I think dysfunctional people are being funneled into very corporate behaviour. Look at the Brits... no one's fighting, and it's boring.

Robbie Williams

PeopleThinkFightingLookBoring

I am a really big Harry Potter fan and I've seen all the sets, I've lived Harry Potter and I don't think it's destroyed the books at all, I think it's really spot on.

Rupert Grint

I AmThinkLivedBigSeenDestroyed

It's nice when you are with a guy who can find the humor in touch situations and be comfortable enough in his own skin that he can laugh at himself.

Mikaela Hoover

HumorLaughEnoughYouFindSkin

I think the most important thing we can teach our kids for their long-term health and happiness is how to cook.

Michael Pollan

HappinessHealthThinkImportant

I think a lot of people are scared, and I know I was scared to get sober, at least using this as an excuse; 'I don't want to be one of those sober people.' And I don't think you have to be. I think you can be one of those people who happens to be sober.

Jason Isbell

PeopleThinkYouKnowWantSober

With my fiction, I focused on chapters and overall conceptions, while in poetry, I crawled along in the trenches of each sentence, examining every word for a sign of a deeper significance.

Philip Schultz

PoetryFocusedFictionAlongSign

I am surprised that I cannot recall whether my desire to become a minister transformed itself into a wish to lead the more militant life of missionary, by a slow process or suddenly.

Pierre Loti

LifeI AmProcessSlowWishDesire

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