Early Quote by Stephen Hough

“Being a monk was the strangest and most perverted way of life imaginable. Monks spent half their lives putting themselves through pain and discomfort…

— Ken Follett

So, at the age of nine, I became a monk, and from then on I was there practicing that kind of nonviolence.

— Satish Kumar

I'm just a monk, I'm like a recluse.

— Y'lan Noel

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

— Nhat Hanh

If for just the time of a finger-snap a monk produces a thought of loving-kindness, develops it, gives attention to it, such a one…

— Gautama Buddha

I felt like poisoning a monk.

— Umberto Eco

I would not be happy if I could not become a monk. They call it the beginner's mind - the deep intention, the deepest…

— Nhat Hanh

One may desire a spurious respect and precedence among one's fellow monks, and the veneration of outsiders. "Both monks and laity should think it…

— Gautama Buddha

I am simply just one monk. That's all.

— Dalai Lama

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

— Poemen

You become a monk and you practice and the teacher tells you what to do. If you find that you have a resistance to…

— Frederick Lenz

One way leads to acquisition, the other leads to nirvana. Realising this a monk should take no pleasure in the respect of others, but…

— Gautama Buddha