Born Quote by Gautama Buddha

There is, monks, an unborn, unbecome, unmade, unconditioned. If, monks, there were no unborn... no escape would be discerned from what is born, become,…

— Gautama Buddha

All is lost. Monks, monks, monks!

— Henry VIII of England

Then are they truly monks when they live by the labor of their hands.

— Benedict of Nursia

All hoods make not monks.

— William Shakespeare

I think many monks hesitate to change things.

— Tenzin Palmo

“if monasteries accepted the irreligious and permitted abstention from prayer, I'd become a monk.”

— Henri Troyat

I would not be happy if I had not become a monk.

— Nhat Hanh

If a monk can overcome two things, he can become free from the world. Bodily ease and vain-glory.

— Poemen

Monks, when ignorance is abandoned, and knowledge arises in the monk, with the ending of ignorance and the arising of knowledge he clings neither…

— Gautama Buddha

“None of us became monks to be nursemaids.” To which the child Lazlo replied, with fire in his soul, “And none of us became…

— Laini Taylor

“The devout life does not solely entail living as a monk or ascetic, though that is fine. The devout life requires bringing God into…

— David Paul Kirkpatrick

Nothing is born, nothing is destroyed. Away with you dualism, your likes and dislikes. Every single thing is just One Mind. When you have…

— Huangbo Xiyun