Cut yourself some slack. Remember, one hundred years from…

“Wouldn't it be great if health-care plans included a list of Buddhist monks among the network providers?”

— Regina Brett

Because monks come from the midst of purity, they consider as good and pure what does not arouse desire among other people.

— Dogen

“It is well known how the monks wrote silly lives of Catholic Saints over the manuscripts on which the classical works of ancient heathendom…

— Karl Marx

“Do not gossip about monks and speak ill of spiritual teachers”

— Shri Radhe Maa

“No. It is impossible to maintain a smile in my brother's presence. Monks haven't the sort of patience required.”

— Libba Bray

“You have two things of value: your monastery and your people. Translate the book for me, and I'll let you keep one. Which will…

— Faith Erin Hicks

Monks, one thing, if practiced and made much of, conduces to great thrill, great profit, great security after the toil, to mindfulness and self-possession,…

— Gautama Buddha

If the world is crazy, maybe it needs a few sane people in the middle of it. Why do monks lock themselves up in…

— Tim Ward

The man-made apocalypse we are facing was not written in the stars; it is a notion that grew like mould from the texts of…

— Anohni

It's probably even the case that if you stoked up some Buddhist monks with tons of testosterone, they'd become wildly competitive as to who…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

The Buddha also counseled the monks and nuns to avoid wasting any precious time by engaging in idle conversation, oversleeping, pursuing fame and recognition,…

— Nhat Hanh

“Normally I would have been the first to go in search of cannibal monks, particularly as I had heard of a similar tradition at…

— Tahir Shah

“When monks deny the existence of the I, they are not denying the existence of humanity or of man in general; but that of…

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

On the whole, monks do not become famous - and that is a good thing - but monasteries do - and that is an…

— Basil Hume

My house was a guest house of many Jaina saints, Hindu monks, Sufi mystics, because my grandfather was interested in all of these people.

— Rajneesh