“...some of the best love poems have been written by monks and nuns...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
Monks transgress the Laws of the Buddha, stir up the common people, store wealth and weapons, and spread rumors; under the guise… — Eiji Yoshikawa Copy Share Image
“The monks kept a sharp eye on him, determined to keep him free of sin—and of joy, which, if not explicitly a… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
The man-made apocalypse we are facing was not written in the stars; it is a notion that grew like mould from the… — Anohni Copy Share Image
What! Have you no monks to teach, to dispute, to govern, to intrigue and to burn people who do not agree with… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Just studying Buddhism, then meditating and going to Buddhist monasteries, talking to Buddhist monks, combined with the Thai people themselves, changed the… — John Burdett Copy Share Image
On the whole, monks do not become famous - and that is a good thing - but monasteries do - and that… — Basil Hume Copy Share Image
“It was the study hour. Most of the monks were reading. A few were meditating, an activity that was suspiciously similar to… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
These are the roots of trees, O monks, these are empty huts. Meditate, monks, do not be negligent, or else you will… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
I can't tell how moving it is to open my email and see a picture of 1,500 Buddhist monks and nuns in… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
I got interested in the Vikings, and then you realize that there isn't much to be read about them because they did… — Michael Hirst Copy Share Image
My Dad used to say that the balance of the world relied on all of the monks who were living outside of… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“People point less often to these monks, and even pass them over in silence, and how surprised they would be if I… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“At that time the authorities used to love to set up their concentration camps in former monasteries: they were enclosed by strong… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The Vikings certainly didn't write anything about themselves; it was not a literate, but rather a pagan, culture. So what we get… — Michael Hirst Copy Share Image
It was called the Middle Ages, the Dark Ages. If not for the monks, everything the world had ever learned would have… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
Monks congregate like dogs in a kennel, From contact with their superiors they acquire knowledge, Is one the course of the wind,… — Taliesin Copy Share Image
“For know, dear ones, that every one of us is undoubtedly responsible for all men- and everything on earth, not merely through… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“We can't stand it, to be alone. We cannot bear it, any more than the monks of old could bear it, men… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
A few days ago Tan Casipo said to me, 'Some people come here with so much dust in their eyes it's unbearable… — Tim Ward Copy Share Image
“Monks, even if bandits were to savagely sever you, limb by limb, with a double-handled saw, even then, whoever of you harbors… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
In the time between the two wars, a British colonial officer said that with the invention of the airplane the world has… — Heinrich Harrer Copy Share Image
“Meditation handbooks from Sheer Peaks monasteries advised the practitioner to envision herself midcopulation with a sensory lushness from which even an Iskari… — Max Gladstone Copy Share Image
“Far below, making their way through the swinging glass doors, a retinue of Buddhist monks entered the Shopping Center. They approached in… — Jeff Greenwald Copy Share Image
It's an oversimplication to say that more monks and nuns are the answer to the Joel Osteen-ification of Christianity... but it wouldn't… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
My house was a guest house of many Jaina saints, Hindu monks, Sufi mystics, because my grandfather was interested in all of… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The thing with darts players is they have always appeared available. They don't have to live like monks. I've only ever met… — Sid Waddell Copy Share Image
“Normally I would have been the first to go in search of cannibal monks, particularly as I had heard of a similar… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
“it became one of the characteristics of Zen monks that they would never approach rulers and statesmen for the sake of worldly… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
My mother is an immigrant from China, and she filled my head with stories about ghosts and fighting monks in China, so… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
“It is well known how the monks wrote silly lives of Catholic Saints over the manuscripts on which the classical works of… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“Wouldn't it be great if health-care plans included a list of Buddhist monks among the network providers?” — Regina Brett Copy Share Image
“When monks deny the existence of the I, they are not denying the existence of humanity or of man in general; but… — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
“somber-looking monks. They sipped a watery soup from wooden spoons. No one spoke. The abbot pointed to a lone table against the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was educated by monks - I thank them dearly for the education they gave me, but I am no longer a… — Antony Gormley Copy Share Image
I grew with it, and I used to go to see the monks, who had no possessions, even more extreme than my… — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
It's probably even the case that if you stoked up some Buddhist monks with tons of testosterone, they'd become wildly competitive as… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“You have two things of value: your monastery and your people. Translate the book for me, and I'll let you keep one.… — Faith Erin Hicks Copy Share Image
