"You ought to know how to rise above……" — Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
"You ought to know how to rise above the trivialities of life, in which most people are found drowning themselves."
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43 Quotes by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki has 43 quotes on this site.
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Eternity is the Absolute present.
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I am an artist at living - my work of art is my life.
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When traveling is made too easy and comfortable, its spiritual meaning is lost. This may be called sentimentalism, but a…
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When mountain-climbing is made too easy, the spiritual effect the mountain exercises vanishes into the air.
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We teach ourselves; Zen merely points the way.
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The right art is purposeless, aimless! The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the…
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Fundamentally the marksman aims at himself.
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Art always has something of the unconscious about it.
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The greatest productions of art, whether painting, music, sculpture or poetry, have invariably this quality-something approaching the work of God.
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Life, according to Zen, ought to be lived as a bird flies through the air, or as a fish swims…
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Enlightenment is like everyday consciousness but two inches above the ground.
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That's why I love philosophy: no one wins.
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More Drowning Quotes
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one of 346 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a…
— John Jay Chapman
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Swimming is not a sport. Swimming is a way to keep from drowning. That's just common sense!
— George Carlin
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Very few persons, comparatively, know how to Desire with sufficient intensity. They do not know what it is to feel…
— Robert Collier
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My sister was drowning in the ocean once, and my brother and I dove in and saved her. True story.…
— Matt Barr
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Rescue the drowning and tie your shoestrings.
— Henry David Thoreau
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If you wish me well, do not stand pitying me, but lend me some succour as fast as you can;…
— Aesop
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Republicans have become the party of red, white and blue rose colored glasses. By drowning out criticism with USA! USA!,…
— Bill Maher
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Ric Flair is out there crying, his nose is running. He's probably drowning from the size of his nose running.
— Roddy Piper
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Nature is no sentimentalist, - does not cosset or pamper us. We must see that the world is rough and…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It's not a cold that you can get over. There is no anti-racist certification class. It's a set of socioeconomic…
— Scott Woods
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This is a setback. You get back up, you dust yourself off, and you get back in the game. We…
— Don King
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There was so much to learn and it was all fun. But the best part was getting a laugh from…
— Hal Holbrook
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