Quotes by Andy Couturier

About Andy Couturier:

Andy Couturier is the American author of two books, Writing Open the Mind: Tapping the Subconscious to Free the Writing and the Writer (Ulysses Press, 2005) and A Different Kind of Luxury: Japanese Lessons in Simple Living and Inner Abundance (Stone Bridge Press 2010). He has written for the Japan Times, The North American Review, Adbusters, Kyoto Journal, The Oakland Tribune, and Creative NonFiction.
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Why is it that so many people start to value money so much that they trade in most of the hours and years of their life in order to get it?

Andy Couturier

Time is what we have in this life, and how we use it determines what our life is.

Andy Couturier

Often I'll go outside and just place my hands on the soil, even if there's no work to do on it. When I am filled with worries, I do that and I can feel the energy of the mountains and of the trees.

Andy Couturier

My goal is to draw a line with some 'flavor' to it.

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They have taken the idea of nonharming, of gentleness toward the earth, to a very radical level. Even the weeds are not enemies.

Andy Couturier

I think all people want freedom, but they've got this idea inserted into their head about money.

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I finally understood that I couldn’t avoid working to provide for myself, but that can also be a wonderful thing, a beautiful thing.

Andy Couturier

If you don't have a whole lot of unsatisfied people, the economy stops dead, doesn't it?

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I thought I should make a place to bring light down into this world. All things that become realities start in that place of someone imagining them.

Andy Couturier

What art should do, I think, is advance the generation into the next era. It should be one step ahead of the ordinary, ahead of what is already known. Art is what pulls on the next age. I’m not saying that my art is that, but that it would be good ...

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Sometimes just to touch the ground is enough for me, even if not a single thing grows from what I plant.

Andy Couturier

Author Bio

  • NameAndy Couturier
  • DescriptionAmerican non-fiction writer
  • Born1964
  • CountryUnited States Of America