Monks Quotes

83 Monks quotes by 67 unique authors

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
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
You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks. — Cameron Diaz
Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their belly. — Desiderius Erasmus
A lot of the powerful religious leaders, from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks, they're really talking about the same things: love and acceptable, and… — Jena Malone
Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state. — Cesare Pavese
(Speaking of the Cistercian monks) A grim fraternity, passing grim lives in that sweet spot, that God had made so bright! Strange that Nature's voices… — Jerome K. Jerome
Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks. — Robert A. Heinlein
The Electric Monk was a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder... Electric Monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was… — Douglas Adams
The Monks of Cool, whose tiny and exclusive monastery is hidden in a really cool and laid-back valley in the lower Ramtops, have a passing-out… — Terry Pratchett
Your tale is of the longest," observed Monks, moving restlessly in his chair. It is a true tale of grief and trial, and sorrow, young… — Charles Dickens
Father monks, why do you fast! Why do you expect reward in heaven for that?...No, saintly monk, you try being virtuous in the world, do… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
If you expect nothing, you can never be disappointed. Apart from a few starry-eyed poets or monks living on a mountaintop somewhere, however, we all… — Tonya Hurley
One of the the loveliest lines I have ever read comes from Brother Roger, the Prior of the Protestant monks of Taize, France: 'Assured of… — Brennan Manning
Certainly," quoth Athelstane, "women are the least to be trusted of all animals, monks and abbots excepted. — Walter Scott
The au pair was bug-eyed. "What happened back there?" "It's not our fault!" Dan babbled. "Those guys are crazy! They're like mini-Darth Vaders without the… — Gordon Korman
Why do you think the Bible has survived thousands of years of tumultuous history Why is it still here Is it because its stories are… — Dan Brown
With a secret smile, not unlike that of a healthy child,he walked along, peacefully, quietly. He wore his gown and walked along exactly like the… — Hermann Hesse
...'I thought the rule was that all monks were shaved.' 'Oh, Soto says he is bald under the hair,'said Lu Tze. 'He says the hair… — Terry Pratchett
He called out to his fellow monks,'Come quickly I am tasting stars. — John Green
A monk should surely love his books with humility, wishing their good and not the glory of his own curiosity; but what the temptation of… — Umberto Eco
In the time between the two wars, a British colonial officer said that with the invention of the airplane the world has no secrets left.… — Heinrich Harrer
For us who live in cities Nature is not natural. Nature is supernatural. Just as monks watched and strove to get a glimpse of heaven,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I was educated by monks - I thank them dearly for the education they gave me, but I am no longer a Catholic. — Antony Gormley

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