Monk Quotes · Page 4

Women were the reason I became a monk - and, ah, the reason I switched back.

— Chris Avellone

Many people would say that A Tibetan monk, even in Lhasa, may be free while the ruler of China may not be…

— Pico Iyer

Just as the habit does not make the monk, the sceptre does not make the king.

— Jose Saramago

I'm nothing special, just an ordinary human being. That's why I always describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk.

— Dalai Lama

I didn't know who Meredith Monk was, and I knew about Laurie Anderson but I didn't know her music that well.

— Petra Haden

“Throughout the history of the Deutschritter the German genius is very evident, romantic idealism implemented with utter ruthlessness.”

— Desmond Seward

I did take comfort in the vespers and compline. I might have become a monk if I hadn't come out.

— John Cameron Mitchell

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

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Becoming a monk was a hard decision. Leaving being a monk was harder, but it's given me so much faith in my…

— Jay Shetty

For us who live in cities Nature is not natural. Nature is supernatural. Just as monks watched and strove to get a…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Men would not be so hasty to abandon the world either as monks or as suicides, did they but see the jewels…

— William Mountford

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…

— Gautama Buddha

“If ever a monk got to heaven by his monkery, it was I." "Christ was given, not for picayune and imaginary transgressions,…

— Martin Luther

“ALRIGHT then, be a Zen monk. But you wait and see. You'll be happy and bright. You'll laugh. People will envy and…

— Lew Welch

I got a chance to listen to and watch Thelonious Monk and his quartet play two shows a night, for six weeks.…

— Chick Corea

If you understand why a monkey in a family is always mocked and harassed, you understand why monks are rejected by all--both…

— Francois Rabelais

There was a lot that was tricky about playing with [Thelonious Monk]. It's a musical language where there's really no lyrics. It's…

— Roy Haynes

Traditionally, women didn't have much a role in Buddhism. The books were all written by monks, for other monks. So the general…

— Tenzin Palmo

Monks, when ignorance is abandoned, and knowledge arises in the monk, with the ending of ignorance and the arising of knowledge he…

— Gautama Buddha

…the interesting thing was that the Roman Catholic monks and the Buddhist monks had no trouble understanding each other. Each of them…

— Joseph Campbell

Here and there in the ancient literature we encounter legends of wise and mysterious games that were conceived and played by scholars,…

— Hermann Hesse

I make a distinction between Buddhism with a Capital 'B' and buddhism with a small 'b'. Sri Lanka has the former, in…

— Sulak Sivaraksa

Creativity itself doesn't care at all about results - the only thing it craves is the process. Learn to love the process…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Hakomi is a path taken by those who work to go beyond the half remembered hurts and failed beliefs that linger unexamined…

— Ron Kurtz

“Monk: Forgive our rudeness Hakkai: Please, don't worry about it. A little purity is good for them. Sanzo: You saying I'm corrupt?”

— Kazuya Minekura

During a chess tournament a master must envisage himself as a cross between an ascetic monk and a beast of prey.

— Alexander Alekhine

I think it's a meritorious action to become a monk, provided that your motivation is pure.

— Tenzin Palmo

The last living boy in America drops into my bedroom only he wants to be a monk. I think that pretty much…

— Susan Beth Pfeffer

As a monk you have a responsibility to meditate many hours a day. Not just to sit there but to think of…

— Frederick Lenz

Being on Broadway is the modern equivalent of being a monk. I sleep a lot, eat a lot, and rest a lot.

— Hugh Jackman

We don't want our players to be monks. We want them to be better football players because a monk doesn't play football…

— Bobby Robson

Certainly," quoth Athelstane, "women are the least to be trusted of all animals, monks and abbots excepted.

— Walter Scott

I'm not a god, I'm not a genius, I'm not a monk, I make non-design for non-consumers. I don't know if I…

— Philippe Starck

Art Monk was an example for Jerry Rice. That's what Jerry always told me.

— Ronnie Lott

Monk encouraged me to emancipate the drums from their subservient role as timekeepers.

— Max Roach

When I found the music of Monk I finally found music that fit that horn. Every one of his tunes fit it…

— Steve Lacy

The life of an artist is like the life of a monk, a lewd monk if you like, very Rabelaisian. It is…

— Marcel Duchamp

Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.

— Francois Rabelais

Then are they truly monks when they live by the labor of their hands.

— Benedict of Nursia

I like to read psychologist's books. 'The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari,' that's one of my favorites. Those kinds of books.

— Ricky Rubio