Monk Quotes

225 quotes by 163 authors

I'm indebted to the teachers who shaped me - from the Sisters of St. Joseph at St. Croix Catholic elementary to the monks of St.… — Denis McDonough
I went through the whole number, you know. The swing era, the boogie woogie era, the bebop era. Thelonious Monk is still one of my… — Mose Allison
First inclination is to become a monk and leave the situation. — Young MC
Monks, one thing, if practiced and made much of, conduces to great thrill, great profit, great security after the toil, to mindfulness and self-possession, to… — Gautama Buddha
Monks will have three begging bowls for their food: one for water, one for liquid food, one for dry food. — Satish Kumar
So, at the age of nine, I became a monk, and from then on I was there practicing that kind of nonviolence. — Satish Kumar
Iâ€™m a basketball player, not a monk. — Marvin Barnes
Many people, including Buddhist monks, spend thousands of hours sitting in what they call meditation. In reality, what they're doing is thinking and ruminating upon… — Frederick Lenz
Happiness is something that comes from creating good karma. The monk who feels that what they are doing is unpleasant is not really creating any… — Frederick Lenz
The Jackdaw sat in the Cardinal's chair! Bishop and Abbot and Prior were there, Many a monk and many a friar, Many a knight and… — Richard Harris Barham
I am not a liberal, not a conservative, not a believer in gradual progress, not a monk. I should like to be a free artist… — Anton Chekhov
Buddhist monks have known for centuries that meditation can change the mind. Now we are inspired by His Holiness to examine with our technology the… — Richard Davidson
At the museum a troubled woman destroys a sand painting meticulously created over days by Tibetan monks. The monks are not disturbed. The work is… — Susan Griffin
A monk's extraordinary patience can be a hindrance to desperate decision-making. — Harsha Bhogle
You become a monk and you practice and the teacher tells you what to do. If you find that you have a resistance to that,… — Frederick Lenz
Nothing makes me feel better - calmer, clearer and happier - than being in one place, absorbed in a book, a conversation, a piece of… — Pico Iyer
In the Far East, it is taken for granted that the training of a monk is physically rigorous and academically challenging. — Frederick Lenz
Your journey is to see how deeply you can interface your mind with infinity. That's the journey of a monk - to see. — Frederick Lenz
Women were the reason I became a monk - and, ah, the reason I switched back. — Chris Avellone
Conclusion: better to be a thinking monk than a postmodern thinker. — Muriel Barbery

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