In a quiet Franciscan monastery kind and silent monks looked after me. After many weeks I was discharged. Unfit for further service. — Ernst Toller Copy Share Image
“I am just a simple monk. The sun shines on the just and unjust alike. If the sun does not judge, then… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
Activity does not necessarily mean life. Quasars are active. And a monk meditating is not inanimate. — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
All is lost! Monks, Monks, Monks! So, now all is gone - Empire, Body, and Soul!. — Henry VIII of England Copy Share Image
There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while. — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
I started to write [The Name of the Rose] in March of 1978, moved by a seminal idea. I wanted to poison… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
In both Surfing the Himalayas and Snowboarding to Nirvana, I have tried to transmit as best I could the spirit of humor,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Where did you learn to kiss like that?” I said, a little breathless. He grinned and pulled me close again. “I said… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
Your tale is of the longest," observed Monks, moving restlessly in his chair. It is a true tale of grief and trial,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
My dad was into jazz, so there was a lot of Thelonious Monk and Duke Ellington playing in the house, but also… — Arlo Parks Copy Share Image
My role models weren't holding steering wheels and mashing gears on Sunday. They wore burgundy and gold with names like Art Monk… — Dale Earnhardt Jr Copy Share Image
Thelonius Monk went over to Bird and Bud Powell and said, 'I told you guys to act crazy, but I didn't tell… — Charles Mingus Copy Share Image
I've always thought a good whodunnit needed vampires, monks, and gods. P.G. Holyfield has created an engaging world that both fantasy and… — Mur Lafferty Copy Share Image
My Dad used to say that the balance of the world relied on all of the monks who were living outside of… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
Amma Theodora said: A certain monk, afflicted by many sorrows, said to himself, "Leave this place." With these words he began to… — Ignatius Bryanchaninov Copy Share Image
Famous Playboy Hugh Hefner managed to successfully stop an order of monks from operating a business on his property. The police forced… — Colin Mochrie Copy Share Image
There yet remains but one concluding tale, And then this chronicle of mine is ended - Fulfilled, the duty God ordained to… — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
Believe nothing, O monks, just because you have been told it, or it is commonly believed, or because it is traditional or… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Economists get very uncomfortable when you talk about virtue and vice. It doesn't lend itself to a lot of columns with numbers.… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
[Thich Nhat Hanh] the one that revolutionized Buddhism. Instead of being monks just engaged in meditation, it was active Buddhism. You went… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
During the last 2,500 years in Buddhist monasteries, a system of seven practices of reconciliation has evolved. Although these techniques were formulated… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nowadays, by contrast, Christianity specialises in soft-focus mood music; its threats of hell, its demand for poverty and chastity, its doctrine that… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
Anger and hatred are the real enemies that we must confront and defeat, not the 'enemies' who appear from time to time… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
In the desert, an old monk had once advised a traveler, the voices of God and the Devil are scarcely distinguishable. — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
In the Far East, it is taken for granted that the training of a monk is physically rigorous and academically challenging. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In love longing I listen to the monk's bell. I will never forget you even for an interval short as those between… — Izumi Shikibu Copy Share Image
I was educated by monks - I thank them dearly for the education they gave me, but I am no longer a… — Antony Gormley Copy Share Image
“I dropped out of computer engineering, and became Monk Scientist, to humanize the divine and divinize the human.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I live like a monk: with one toothbrush, one cake of soap, and a pot of cream. — Greta Garbo Copy Share Image
So, at the age of nine, I became a monk, and from then on I was there practicing that kind of nonviolence. — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
I'm not an acting monk or anything. I'm not, like, the most well-adjusted actor. — Adam Driver Copy Share Image
A monk's extraordinary patience can be a hindrance to desperate decision-making. — Harsha Bhogle Copy Share Image
The road to Hell is paved with the bones of priests and monks, and the skulls of bishops are the lamp posts… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
At heart I am a librarian, a bird-watcher, a transcendentalist, a gardener, a spinster, a monk. — Juliana Hatfield Copy Share Image
I have tons of jazz records: John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis. I could go on and on. — Ted King Copy Share Image
I follow four dictates: face it, accept it, deal with it, then let it go. — Sheng-yen Copy Share Image
But I really want to be an artist, so therefore I have to live a little bit like a monk. — John Lone Copy Share Image
Peaceful and kind one monk is more valuable than violent and rude ten thousand men! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
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