Poets and monks... We're both sort of peripheral to the…

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

Indian monks were the first to choose the garden as the proper setting for their lives, which were devoted to the contemplation of the…

— Marie-Luise Gothein

There is, Oh Monks, a not-born, a not-become, a not-made, a not-compounded. Monks, if that unborn, not-become, not-made, not-compounded were not, there would be…

— Gautama Buddha

I remember there was this one lady shaman who said that having children puts a hole in your soul. And the only way to…

— Larkin Grimm

What! Have you no monks to teach, to dispute, to govern, to intrigue and to burn people who do not agree with them?

— Voltaire

All is lost. Monks, monks, monks!

— Henry VIII of England

Two monks sit facing, playing chess on the mountain, The bamboo shadow on the board is dark and clear. Not a person sees the…

— Bai Juyi

Monks are not expected to speak about themselves; the message is important, not the person.

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

I was educated by monks - I thank them dearly for the education they gave me, but I am no longer a Catholic.

— Antony Gormley

There is a basic problem that a lot of Western monks and nuns become ordained without really understanding or appreciating what the monastic life…

— Tenzin Palmo

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

— Dogen

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

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

When I became a novice monk, I lived in a temple where the atmosphere was quite like in a family. The abbot is like…

— Anonymous