Ifs Quote by Martin Scorsese

It is not bad living in a monastery. I've done it many times in many lives. But I think you can do a better…

— Frederick Lenz

Working conditions for me have always been those of the monastic life: solitude and frugality. Except for frugality, they are contrary to my nature,…

— Albert Camus

“the pool of individuals to whom the monastic philosophy applies is limited—and that’s okay. If you’re outside this pool, its radical simplicity shouldn’t evince…

— Cal Newport

You might say living in a monastery cuts down the commutation time. That alone gives you a couple extra hours a day to meditate.…

— Frederick Lenz

Thinking about monastic ideals is not the same as living up to them, but at any rate such thinking has an important place in…

— Thomas Merton

Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in…

— Quentin Crisp

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.

— John Keats

“Monastic contemplatives have staked out a clearly limited area to be transformed by contemplation: the monastery. Lay contemplatives face the challenge of transforming the…

— David Steindl-Rast

Working in film, I'm sure you have insight into this, there's something great that only comes by way of interactions with others that a…

— John Maus

If you have an idea of what you want to do in your future, you must go at it with almost monastic obsession...you have…

— Henry Rollins

Monastic life cuts off the distractions and emotional entanglements one becomes involved in, in the lay life.

— Tenzin Palmo

“the monastery is not a place to hide from problems; it is a place to face them, whether they are personal sin, human brokenness,…

— Carrie Gress