Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own…

I wasn't necessarily aware of what my dad did, but I was aware that wherever we'd go, there would be attention. I was never…

— Dan Levy

A lot of people ask me, 'Are you born a writer?' And I don't think it's necessarily true. I just think what you either…

— Matt de la Pena

We have to have a version of our own story that we keep telling ourselves that allows us to get up in the morning.…

— Steven Soderbergh

You are as happy as you think you are, but not necessarily as miserable as you imagine.

— Mason Cooley

“What I say and what I think are not necessarily the same thing.”

— Zøe Haslie

“If you are a girl, I don't think you should necessarily become a lesbian, although if the idea appeals to you, I wouldn't say…

— Suzanne Finnamore

“What I think is not necessarily, what I feel and what I feel is not necessarily, what I think.”

— Santosh Kalwar

Whenever learners or those beyond learning awaken the mind, for the first time they plant one buddha-nature. Working with the four elements and five…

— Dogen

To be enlightened is to be aware, always, of total reality in its immanent otherness - to be aware of it and yet remain…

— Aldous Huxley

There is no beginning to practice nor end to enlightenment; There is no beginning to enlightenment nor end to practice.

— Dogen

Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.

— Dogen

When a buddha is painted, not only a clay altar or lump of earth is used, but the thirty-two marks, a blade of grass,…

— Dogen

Set aside all involvements and let the myriad things rest. Zazen is not thinking of good, not thinking of bad. It is not conscious…

— Dogen

Nirvana is a word that means enlightenment, being beyond the illusion of birth and death, the illusion of pain, the illusion of love, the…

— Frederick Lenz

Enlightenment is lightening up.

— Mike Myers