Monk Quotes · Page 5

“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

Miles Davis and Felonious Monk, they're both great artists who enhance things.

— John Gourley

I was fat and ugly and never 'wanted to hook up - for a gay guy that's unheard of. I was like…

— Perez Hilton

The Holy Scriptures do not know any distinctions. They enjoin that all lead the life of monks.

— Saint John Chrysostom

Smile, breathe and go slowly." - Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Zen monk, author and peace activist.

— Nhat Hanh

“I am a monk at heart - a scientist at brain - a philosopher at conscience.”

— Abhijit Naskar

[Winning the Thelonious Monk International Saxophone Competition]definitely opened some doors.

— Jon Gordon

I always thought if I was born 2000 years earlier, I would be a monk, probably carving a monastery or some giant…

— Jenova Chen

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

— Tenzin Palmo

But when it comes to democratic political parties, I prefer that monks and nuns not join them - in order to ensure…

— Dalai Lama

The ephemeral nature of live performance is the part I love most - it's a monk's sand painting, carefully constructed, then wiped…

— Rosanne Cash

In my 20s, I was a monk. I was obsessed with theatre, not being famous, not with television. I was 20 years…

— Saul Rubinek

Compared to what comics say today, I'm a monk, but in those days, it was unheard of to make fun of people…

— Don Rickles

“The tall monk who came striding down the shadowed monastery corridor was surprisingly young, barely thirty. As he swept past the novices,…

— Michelle Frost

But when I lived as a monk, solitude is often spoken of as a strength. And so the first thing I'd recommend…

— Jay Shetty

A famous monk once said, I don't always know what the right thing to do is, my Lord, but I think the…

— Penn Jillette

A solitary American monk named Thomas Berry writes that in our relationship to nature, we have been autistic for centuries. Wrapped tightly…

— Janine Benyus

I got into music when I was a little boy. My dad was always into jazz. I got my education from him.…

— Ted King

Amma Theodora said: A certain monk, afflicted by many sorrows, said to himself, "Leave this place." With these words he began to…

— Ignatius Bryanchaninov

Famous Playboy Hugh Hefner managed to successfully stop an order of monks from operating a business on his property. The police forced…

— Colin Mochrie

[Thelonious] Monk is a subject in itself. I mean, most piano players in most big bands sit down and they play with…

— Ray Brown

“I once renounced my home in Calcutta, and roamed around the villages of Bengal as a monk. But after I attained the…

— Abhijit Naskar

During the last 2,500 years in Buddhist monasteries, a system of seven practices of reconciliation has evolved. Although these techniques were formulated…

— Anonymous

Bop began with Jazz but one afternoon somewhere on a sidewalk maybe 1939, 1940, Dizzy Gillespie or Charlie Parker or Thelonious Monk…

— Jack Kerouac

'Monk' planted the seed that a procedural could have character and be quirky and have comedy.

— James Roday

When I came out of the conservatory, the first thing I did was to go see Thelonious Monk.

— Cecil Taylor

“No one can find God without having first been found by Him. A monk is a man who seeks God because he…

— Thomas Merton

[All] the manly virtues were oppressed by the servile and pusillanimous reign of the monks.

— Edward Gibbon

Buddhism is in your heart. Even if you don't have any temple or any monks, you can still be a Buddhist in…

— Nhat Hanh

When a monk complained about the world's evil, the Buddha stretched his hand toward the Earth: "on this Earth I attained Liberation".

— Frederick Franck

The real destroyer of inner peace is fear and distrust. Fear develops frustration, frustration develops anger, anger develops violence.

— Dalai Lama

Peaceful and kind one monk is more valuable than violent and rude ten thousand men!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

If I say, "I am a monk." or "I am a Buddhist," these are, in comparison to my nature as a human…

— Dalai Lama

If a monk can overcome two things, he can become free from the world. Bodily ease and vain-glory.

— Poemen

Whatever a monk keeps pursuing with his thinking and pondering, that becomes the inclination of his awareness.

— Anonymous

The prayer of the monk is not perfect until he no longer recognizes himself or the fact that he is praying.

— Anthony of Padua

“The wolf was sick, he vowed a monk to be - But when he got well, a wolf once more was he”

— Walter Bower

You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.

— Cameron Diaz

During a Chess competition a Chessmaster should be a combination of a beast of prey and a monk

— Alexander Alekhine

For me, Charles Xavier is a monk. He's like a selfless, egoless almost sexless force for the betterment of humanity and mortality.

— James McAvoy