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
“I dropped out of computer engineering, and became Monk Scientist, to humanize the divine and divinize the human.” — Abhijit Naskar 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
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 live like a monk: with one toothbrush, one cake of soap, and a pot of cream. — Greta Garbo 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
“I’m like a praying mantis, except not so devout. And I make love like a monk in meditation, which can often be… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Every few generations there are people who come along that change the way we look at the world, for musical enthusiasts Monk… — John Conyers Copy Share Image
I've always been really athletic, which really helped, because when I first started doing the training for Bulletproof Monk, it required so… — Jaime King Copy Share Image
When you visit the Zen Monasteries, one of the first things required is that you bring a donation. They have to pay… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
...commerce, which is mistakenly classified among the productive forms of work, ought to be ranked first among the parasitical professions like those… — Charles Fourier Copy Share Image
The solitary monk who shook the world From pagan slumber, when the gospel trump Thunder' d its challenge from his dauntless lips… — Robert Montgomery Copy Share Image
There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
There would never be a way for me to live comfortably with people. Maybe I'd become a monk. I'd pretend to believe… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
When I go visit my brother monks in Japan and sit down with other Zen Masters, they look at my crazy clothes… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I was [ on Thelonious Monk International Saxophone Competition] with Ralph Bowen, and Joel Frahm, Jimmy Greene, John Ellis. You can't play… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
I love jazz. So to me, there are two main types of jazz. There's dancing jazz, and then there's listening jazz. Listening… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
The Imitation of Christ is a cherished treasure of the Christian world. This great book was written by a Roman Catholic monk.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
How does one stay mindful? Where feelings are known as they arise, known as they persist, known as they pass away. Thoughts… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Father monks, why do you fast! Why do you expect reward in heaven for that?...No, saintly monk, you try being virtuous in… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
My parents both renounced their material lives and were living as monks at an ashram in L.A. when they met each other.… — Taraka Larson Copy Share Image
She would only point out the salvation that was latent in his own soul, and in the soul of every man. Only… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
The Electric Monk was a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder... Electric Monks believed things for you, thus saving… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
'Do you know,' he asked in a delicious accent, 'what Dom Pérignon said after inventing champagne?' 'No?' I said. 'He called out… — John Green Copy Share Image
When I was a teenager, I wanted to be in a group, or I wanted to work for Greenpeace, or I wanted… — Dave Wakeling Copy Share Image
“At night a hooded monk passed by where there were no lamps. I could not see his face. I only heard these… — St Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
I am hopelessly divided between the dark and the good, the rebel and the saint, the sex maniac and the monk, the… — Billy Idol Copy Share Image
...'I thought the rule was that all monks were shaved.' 'Oh, Soto says he is bald under the hair,'said Lu Tze. 'He… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I like prostitution. My heart has never failed to pound at the sight of one of those provocatively dressed women walking in… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“First time someone broke my heart, I dropped out of engineering and emerged as the Monk Scientist. Second time when I lost… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Most of the methods for measuring the lapse of time have, I believe, been the contrivance of monks and religious recluses, who,… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The more original something is, the more of a threat it seems until the people catch up with it. That happened with… — Steve Lacy Copy Share Image
“I am what happens when a monk scientist goes full-on godmode to establish a planetary, integrated, anti-racist, anti-phobic, anti-misogynist, anti-colonial, anti-military, anti-nationalist… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The key to maintaining your inspiration in the day-to-day work of meditation practice is to approach it as play—a happy opportunity to… — Thanissaro Bhikkhu Copy Share Image
Monks, nuns, long-term spinsters and bachelors and permanent homosexuals are all, in a reproductive sense, aberrant. Society has bred them, but they… — Desmond Morris Copy Share Image
Being a Buddhist monk means never losing one's optimism in spite of all difficulties. It also means being harder on yourself than… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
One way leads to acquisition, the other leads to nirvana. Realising this a monk should take no pleasure in the respect of… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
I like Thelonious Monk, he's so gnarled, he's like a piece of machinery that's pulled up the bolts on the floor and… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
![“I was [ on Thelonious Monk International Saxophone Competition] with Ralph Bowen, and Joel Frahm, Jimmy Greene, John Ellis. You can't play the saxophone better than any of those guys play. So many of those things that those guys could do I wish I could do now, let alone then.” quote by Jon Gordon](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/3bb/jon-gordon-1655_competition_i-was-on-thelonious-monk-international-s_843648.png)
