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.

That's very nice if they want to publish you, but don't pay too much attention to it. It will toss you away. Just continue to write.

Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.

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.

Never underestimate people. They do desire the cut of truth.

Talk when you talk, walk when you walk, and die when you die.

Read books. They are good for us.

Sometimes when you think you are done, it is just the edge of beginning. Probably that's why we decide we're done. It's getting too scary. We are touching down onto something real. It is beyond the point when you think you are done that often something strong comes out.

When you are present, the world is truly alive.

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.

A writer's job is to give the reader a larger vision of the world.

Failure is what we're all running from, we're always running toward success with failure at our back.

I consider writing practice a true Zen practice because it all comes back at you. You can't fool anyone because it's on the page.

I feel that 'The Great Failure' is really a book written out of great love and a willingness to face all of who a human being is.

If you feel bored or uncomfortable as you're writing, ask yourself what's bothering you and write about that. Sometimes your creative energy is like water in a kinked hose, and before thoughts can flow on the topic at hand, you have to straighten the hose by attending to whatever is preoccupying you.

Our job as writers is to listen, to come home to the four corners of the earth.

The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does.

There's no such thing as a writer's block. If you're having trouble writing, well, pick up the pen and write. No matter what, keep that hand moving. Writing is really a physical activity.

When you bring the darkness to the table, it doesn't rule you or hurt other people, but when we keep it secret, it's dangerous.

When you write what you know, you stay in control. One of the first things I encourage my writing students to do is to lose control - say what they want to say, break structure.

Whether you're keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it's the same thing. What's important is you're having a relationship with your mind.

Women are wonderful, but they get so caught up about their body. We need to unhook from worrying so much. When I don't feel good, I look in the mirror and think I look fat and miserable. But when I feel good and whole, I'm not worried about my body because I'm living in it. It doesn't become an object.

Women need space and silence. We too quickly give away our energy. There's something about holding that richness.

Stress is an ignorant state. It believes everything is an emergency.

Stress is a confused state. It believes that everything is an emergency.

We are each a concert reverberating with our whole lives and reflecting and amplifying the world around us.

Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth a forgetting of the breath.

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

Wait until you are hungry to say something until there is an aching in you to speak.

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

Nobody cares much whether you write or not. You just have to do it

This is your life. You are responsible for it. You will not live forever. Don't wait.

Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.

Choose your tools carefully, but not so carefully that you get uptight or spend more time at the stationery store than at your writing table.

A writer must say yes to life.

The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.

My life has been a continuous fulfillment of dreams. It appears that everything I saw and did has a new, and perhaps, more significant meaning, every time I see it. The earth is good. It is a privilege to live thereon.

I believe as human beings we are out of balance, out of synch with the earth.

We are put on this earth to have a good time. This makes other people feel good. And the cycle continues.

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.

Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.

You know, if you hang around this earth long enough you really see how things come full circle.

With a firm and steadfast mind one should hold under all conditions, that everywhere the earth is below and the sky above, and to the energetic man, every region is his fatherland.

A time will come when men will stretch out their eyes. They should see planets like our Earth.

When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen.

Long after this wonderful event in the Earth's history, when the human species was spread over a good deal of Asia, Europe, and Africa, migration to the American continents began in attempts to find new feeding grounds and unoccupied areas for hunting and fishing.

My object will be, first, to show by what connections the history of the fossil bones of land animals is linked to the theory of the earth and why they have a particular importance in this respect.

I just did a picture book called The Wildest Brother on Earth, and you will find both of my children in there.

A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not.