Penny: Donald, were you everin a monastery? Donald: No, I…

I turned into a monk when my mother went to learn Buddhism in Burma. While she learnt at the monastery, I used to roam…

— Kabir Bedi

“A life awakened to God so that the world becomes our monastery.”

— Ken Shigematsu

I still have the same beliefs as when I was in the monastery.

— Justo Gallego

“A witch, a Rider, a dragon, and a god walk into a monastery… There’s got to be a good joke in there somewhere.”

— Deborah Blake

I brought all the instincts of a writer with me into the monastery.

— Thomas Merton

To keep a faith pure, man had better retire to a monastery.

— Walter Lippmann

The only people who had authority within the Church to stop Brendan Smyth from having contact with children were his Abbot in the Monastery…

— Sean Brady

You have to put yourself in a situation, a lifestyle, that makes you do the work. Even if it's a monastery.

— Martin Scorsese

Running is just such a monastery- a retreat, a place to commune with God and yourself, a place for psychological and spiritual renewal.

— George A. Sheehan

“I remembered something Father Michael said to me a the monastery. 'The human soul is meant to expand. Things that once captured your heart…

— Susan E. Isaacs

I love the idea of a university as away from capitalist values, where people can do things that don't immediately have to pay their…

— Alain de Botton

“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

“I heard you’d gone into a monastery.’ Tony nodded. ‘I did, only I didn’t stay long. I couldn’t be doing with all the praying…

— Wilkie Martin

To retire to the monastery, or the woods, or the sea, is to escape from the sharp suggestions that spur on ambition.

— Charles Horton Cooley

“For two years I’ve been a monk but the only monastery I’ve lived in is my own mind.”

— Bhiksus Heng Sure, Heng Ch’au