Natalie Goldberg Quotes

What encouragement the apostle holds out to us. O my friends, that we might leave all our pretensions, and come to the truth in our own hearts.

Sincerity is the way to heaven; to think how to be sincere is the way of man.

If you are honest with yourself and if you want to like what you see in the mirror, is you have to say what you really believe.

Be honest with yourself. The world is not honest with you. The world loves hypocrisy. When you are honest with yourself you find the road to inner peace.

I am expressing myself truthfully. That is an important thing.

In the process of telling the truth about what you feel or what you see, each of us has to get in touch with himself or herself in a really deep, serious way.

What do I really think? What do I believe in, without the horse manure?

The only thing you can really say in a poem is what you really, really deeply believe.

Let your tongue speak what your heart thinks.

Everything I've written has been personal and touched on things that I needed to deal with in my personal life. So I just feel that writing is great therapy, and the best writing comes from truth, and so I mine my life constantly for that.

There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.

Be as you wish to seem.

I come out of real life.

Art is about expressing the true nature of the human spirit in whatever way one wishes to express it. If it is honest, it is beautiful. If it is not honest, it is obvious.

Every day I get more and more honest.

I've tried to do away with lying in my life in the last few years, but it's hard.

I am excited to show people how, when you get older, you get deeper, you get more raw, you get more honest, and you stop pretending to be the person you think people want you to be. I stopped worrying about what people wanted me to say and just sort of dug deep into my personal arsenal of my mistakes and shameful thoughts.

Life is about, every single day, getting up to manifest your truth.

I'm trying to be truthful.

Day to day and doing the work and getting to that honest point - that, for me, is always about - and always will be as long as I do this - refining and refining and refining and refining the truth... constantly being as truthful and honest and raw and real as you can be.

I've learned in the little bit of my life so far that you can't fool people. And so I only tell people what I think about: my ambitions, my dreams, what inspires me.

In order for us to appreciate this world, we have to be a bit more honest, and I hope I do that.

The second you're not honest with yourself, you've lost everything.

I'm in this effort to unify my life and to live day to day in a disciplined way, to be real at all times, not just in front of people, or not just in a synagogue.

I'm trying to know who I am and be honest about it.