"Everything is perfect and there is always room……" — Shunryu Suzuki

"Everything is perfect and there is always room for improvement."

— Shunryu Suzuki

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131 Quotes by Shunryu Suzuki

Shunryu Suzuki has 131 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine.
When you say, "Wait a moment," you are bound by your karma; when you say "Yes I will," you are…
If enlightenment comes first, before thinking, before practice, your thinking and your practice will not be self-centered. By enlightenment I…
Happiness is sorrow; sorrow is happiness. There is happiness in difficulty; difficulty in happiness. Even though the ways we feel…
The best way to control cow and sheep is to give them a big grazing field.
Those who sit perfectly physically usually take more time to obtain the true way of Zen.
The true practice to meditation is to sit as if you where drinking water when you are thursty.
In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the expert's mind there are few.... In the beginner's mind there…
When my master and I were walking in the rain, he would say, 'Do not walk so fast, the rain…
As soon as you see something, you already start to intellectualize it. As soon as you intellectualize something, it is…
When we have our body and mind in order, everything else will exist in the right place, in the right…
If you can just appreciate each thing, one by one, then you will have pure gratitude. Even though you observe…

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More Always Room Quotes

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I have to be careful not to be too proud in life, because there is always room for improvement. — Sylvia Kristel
There is always room for a person of force and they make room for many. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is always room in your life for thinking bigger, pushing limits and imagining the impossible. — Tony Robbins
There's always room for improvement. We have a nucleus that's pretty good. You want players that will help. — Jason Kidd
There is always room for those who can be relied upon to delivery the goods when they say they will. — Napoleon Hill
I feel there is always room for good music. I want to reach people's soul with my lyrics through whatever… — Ne-Yo
There is always room for a man of force and he makes room for many. Society is a troop of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Success can be attained in any branch of labor. There’s always room at the top in every pursuit. — Andrew Carnegie
We need to make sure we have the best people we can in our operations, and that is a constant… — James Packer
You are perfect as you are and there is always room for improvement. — Shunryu Suzuki
There is always room in our budget for a little experimentation. — Beth Comstock
There is always room for coincidence. — Noto

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