Monk Quote by Chris Avellone Download Open image “Women were the reason I became a monk - and, ah, the reason I switched back.” — Chris Avellone ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Monk Reason
Becoming a monk was a hard decision. Leaving being a monk was harder, but it's given me so much faith in my ability to… — Jay Shetty Copy Share Image
“Monk had a brief vision of what it must be like to be a women on her own, obliged to work at pleasing people because your acceptance, perhaps even your financial survival, depended upon it. There must be hundreds - thousands - of petty accommodations, suppressions of your own beliefs and opinions because they would not be what someone else… — Anne Perry Copy Share
Traditionally, women didn't have much a role in Buddhism. The books were all written by monks, for other monks. So the general view of the feminine was rather misogynistic, with women playing the role of the forbidden other, waiting to pounce on innocent little monks! In that society, it was hard for women to become educated and get the deeper… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share
The Buddha gave equal opportunities to women. But we, even as followers of Buddha, neglected that. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I don't know why I got reborn as a female. Maybe in my past life I had some sympathy or something for women, but… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
As Buddhism moved to the West, one of the big characteristics was the strong place of women. That didn't exist in the countries of… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
And yet women-good women--frightened me because they eventually wanted your soul, and what was left of mine, I wanted to keep. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I was not much used to women except for mothers. Everything I did, they did different. — Daniel Woodrell Copy Share Image
I didn't really realise that I was going to have more obstacles because I was a woman. It was never something that I thought… — Katherine Ryan Copy Share Image
I think actually any morality system that rewards only the extremes is a flawed system. Players don't approach life that way, they don't approach… — Chris Avellone Copy Share Image
I don't think I could ever stop being a game designer, that's just where my brain is going to be at until I'm in… — Chris Avellone Copy Share Image
“You are wrong. If there is anything I have learned in my travels across the Planes, it is that many things may change the… — Chris Avellone Copy Share Image
I've got to be honest, I absolutely don't like designing romances. I think that you get a lot more drama and impact from failed… — Chris Avellone Copy Share Image
I am never going to do an Empire Strikes Back ending again in a game, even if they put branding irons to my feet. — Chris Avellone Copy Share Image
“Attention Morte. I have a question. Do you have a destiny? A purpose?" "Is Annah still wearing clothes?" "Affirmatory." "Then the answer is yes.” — Chris Avellone Copy Share Image
When the injustice is great enough, justice will lend me the strength needed to correct it. None may stand against it. It will shatter… — Chris Avellone Copy Share Image
The moment you start dictating content/themes/story vs. allowing the player to be a participant in the story and carve their own path, you're doing… — Chris Avellone Copy Share Image
I always thought if I was born 2000 years earlier, I would be a monk, probably carving a monastery or some giant pantheon buildings. — Jenova Chen Copy Share Image
So too, monks, I saw the ancient path, the ancient road traveled by the Perfectly Enlightened Ones of the past. And what is that… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
I listened to King Oliver and I listened to Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Archie Shepp... I listened… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
If your spirit still looks around at the time of prayer, then it does not yet pray as a monk. You are no better… — Evagrius Ponticus Copy Share Image
A solitary American monk named Thomas Berry writes that in our relationship to nature, we have been autistic for centuries. Wrapped tightly in our… — Janine Benyus Copy Share Image
Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said. — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
Believe nothing, O monks, just because you have been told it, or it is commonly believed, or because it is traditional or because you… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“I have my own way to walk and for some reason or other Zen is right in the middle of it wherever I go.… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I turned into a monk when my mother went to learn Buddhism in Burma. While she learnt at the monastery, I used to roam… — Kabir Bedi Copy Share Image
Where we've been wise is that, while 'Monk' may have been a risk at the beginning, we've built its success and built on its… — Bonnie Hammer Copy Share Image
Firstly, as a Buddhist monk, I hold that violence is not good. Secondly, I am a firm believer in the Gandian ethic of passive… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
My heart has become capable of every form: It is a pasture for gazelles And a monastery for Christian monks, And the pilgrim's Ka'ba,… — Ibn Arabi Copy Share Image
