I do not perceive even one other thing, O monks, that when undeveloped and uncultivated entails such great suffering as the mind.… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
People need things. I don't live a monk's existence, I'm a consumer, but I try to do it to the level that… — Jamie Lee Curtis Copy Share Image
I believe, from reading biographies, that the great musicians have also been great cooks: Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Max Roach.… — Jamie Cullum Copy Share Image
This [Thelonious Monk: The Life And Times Of An American Original] is another one of those books with the perfect blend of… — Scott McClanahan Copy Share Image
When I became a monk, it didn't feel like I was giving up that much. I actually felt like I had made… — Jay Shetty Copy Share Image
My own schooldays convince me that I would not send a child of mine to be educated by a grinning monk any… — Harry Enfield Copy Share Image
I would become a priest or a rabbi or a monk or whatever the hell was necessary to perform miracles such as… — Lenny Bruce Copy Share Image
I really feel that some people neglect and overlook compassion because they associate it with religion. Of course, everyone is free to… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
This is for you,' he (the Alchemist) said, holding one of the parts (of gold) out to the monk. 'It's for your… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A certain monk told me that when he was very sick, his mother said to his father, "How our little boy is… — Silouan the Athonite Copy Share Image
At the bidding of a Peter the Hermit millions of men hurled themselves against the East; the words of an hallucinated enthusiast… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
Prison life taught him how little one can get along with, and what extraordinary spiritual freedom and peace such simplification can bring.… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
In Koln, a town of monks and bones, And pavement fang'd with murderous stones, And rags and hags, and hideous wenches, I… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
When a monk goes away from the world, he goes fighting with it. it is not a relaxed going. His whole being… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Monks, we who look at the whole and not just the part, know that we too are systems of interdependence, of feelings,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
When I became a novice monk, I lived in a temple where the atmosphere was quite like in a family. The abbot… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Firstly, there no such person as Death. Second, Death's this tall guy with a bone face, like a skeletal monk, with a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Two monks sit facing, playing chess on the mountain, The bamboo shadow on the board is dark and clear. Not a person… — Bai Juyi Copy Share Image
“Eco listens with interest to the story of a lost manuscript for which people are being killed. He sees a man walk… — Laurent Binet Copy Share Image
At the museum a troubled woman destroys a sand painting meticulously created over days by Tibetan monks. The monks are not disturbed.… — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
I think any spiritual experience that's worthwhile is not about ego and it will humble you in some way. And also, a… — David O. Russell Copy Share Image
Unfortunately this Electric Monk had developed a fault, and had started to believe all kinds of things, more or less at random.… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Take the example of people who are being most unrealistic - people who are beating monks to death and torturing them. Why… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
“Your body is a hyacinth, Into which a monk dips his waxy fingers. Our silence is a black cavern, From which a… — Georg Trakl Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a monk at some time in my life, or a priest, so there was a kind of reflex… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
“...the monk beat me to break my spirit, incensed I knew Acquinas - angry, I knew his riddle - beauty is what… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
If you cry ''Forward'' you must be sure to make clear the direction in which to go. Don't you see that if… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I think what attracts me about the Electric Monk is that it's such an eloquent example of the futility of belief for… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“He was only a boy from a Welsh hill village who had the good fortune to become a monk. Today he would… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
In a lot of ways, their journeys are opposite of each other's: Aang was a peace-loving monk, through and through, whereas Korra… — Bryan Konietzko Copy Share Image
“Monk might have even written a message on the cloth, using the AG-7 astronaut pen he always carried in his jacket. But… — Hy Conrad Copy Share Image
Thinking about monastic ideals is not the same as living up to them, but at any rate such thinking has an important… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I say, play your own way. Don't play what the public want - you play what you want and let the public… — Thelonious Monk Copy Share Image
No one can live without relationship. You may withdraw into the mountains, become a monk, a sannyasi, wander off into the desert… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
There are, O monks, these four lights. What four? The light of the moon, the light of the sun, the light of… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
As Buddhist monks, our task is to bring ourselves resolutely more and more into light, to forgive and forget, to forget those… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Kung fu was made so the monks could train their bodies and move their bodies with strength, so they could be physical… — RZA Copy Share Image
Some consider me as a living Buddha. That's nonsense. That's silly. That's wrong. If they consider me a simple Buddhist monk, however,… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
From the outside, my life may look chaotic, but inside I feel like some kind of monk licking an ice cream cone… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
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![“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 something you feel and you're hearing. It's like an ongoing conversation. You really had to listen to this guy. Cause he could play the strangest tempos, and they…” quote by Roy Haynes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0ee/roy-haynes-43782_arrangements_there-was-a-lot-that-was-tricky-about-pl_1862413.jpg)
![“Kung fu was made so the monks could train their bodies and move their bodies with strength, so they could be physical enough to gain mental enlightenment. Before that, they kept falling asleep when [masters] were trying to teach them.” quote by RZA](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/01e/rza-1981_body_kung-fu-was-made-so-the-monks-could-trai_1995516.jpg)
