"Be tough in the way a blade of grass is: rooted, willing to lean, and at peace with what is around it."

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Source : Natalie Goldberg (2011). “Wild Mind: Living the Writer’s Life”, p.192, Open Road Media

Natalie Goldberg

#Way Quotes #Tough Quotes #Blades Of Grass Quotes

“Thinking about the future and thinking about the past is really only a way of ignoring the present.”
“Men marry for fortune, and sometimes to please their fancy; but, much oftener than is suspected, they consider what the world will say of it--how such a woman in their friends' eyes will look at the head of a table. Hence we see so many insipid beauties made wives of, that could not have struck the particular fancy of any man that had any fancy at all.”
“Making art is an act of courage. Do you know who said that?”
“Why have a pet hate? Why should it be confined? My hate is both wide ranging and total.”
“Energy and fuel prices continue to rise, triggering fuel consumption concerns in the United States.”
“Sometimes I photograph without looking through the viewfinder. I have mastered that well enough, it is almost as if I were looking through it.”
“Its about letting go so you can get what what you want.”
“I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash.”

Source : "The poor are treated like enemies". Interview with Richard Phillips, www.wsws.org. April 18, 1998.

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