Natalie Goldberg Quotes

I believe that there are moments in everyone's lives where a door flings open, and if you're terrified of what's on the other side, you must walk through it.

I think change is always scary but also always good.

What wonderful thing didn't start out scary?

...no one who has passed through the storm has ever regretted the journey. No one stands here and wishes to go back to the other side.

Sometimes the things that scare me are the things I'm drawn to: moving to London, L.A., New York; marrying, having a kid. In order to live a full life, sometimes you have to do things that scare you.

Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity.

People are afraid of changing; that they're losing something. They don't understand that they are also gaining something.

Every journey starts with fear.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Many times in life, we say we want change but are then terrified when the opportunity for it arrives.

You shouldn't be fearful of starting over.

Change can be beautiful when we are brave enough to evolve with it, and change can be brutal when we fearfully resist.

It is those very things that we are most afraid to do that provide the greatest liberation and growth for us.

One cannot begin a new dream without abandoning the last [one].

If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone.

We have to discard the past / and, as one builds / floor by floor, window by window, / and the building rises, / so do we keep shedding - first, broken tiles, / then proud doors... and each new day / gleams / like an empty / plate.

IF YOU'RE DOING SOMETHING THAT TERRIFIES YOU, MOST LIKELY YOU'RE DOING THE RIGHT THING.

Sometimes you have to change. You know change is always good.

New beginnings – professional, personal, or come what may – are always uncomfortable, but being open to them is the only way to grow. In the end, we are all capable of so much more than we think.

One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.

Change and growth is so painful. But it's so necessary for us to evolve.

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.

Today is the day to break free from the prison of the person you know yourself to be and step into a self you have yet to know. Will it be comfortable? No, but do it anyway.