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  • #1
    Robert M. Pirsig
    “The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling.”
    Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

  • #2
    Robert M. Pirsig
    “Is it hard?'
    Not if you have the right attitudes. Its having the right attitudes thats hard.”
    Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values

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  • #4
    “The more you believe in yourself, the more the world believes in you!”
    Isa Zapata

  • #5
    Matthew Arnold
    “Wandering between two worlds, one dead
    The other powerless to be born,
    With nowhere yet to rest my head
    Like these, on earth I wait forlorn.

    Matthew Arnold

  • #6
    Matthew Arnold
    “Weary of myself, and sick of asking
    What I am, and what I ought to be,
    At this vessel's prow I stand, which bears me
    Forwards, forwards, o'er the starlit sea.”
    Matthew Arnold

  • #7
    Matthew Arnold
    “Art still has truth. Take refuge there.”
    Matthew Arnold

  • #8
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”
    Martin Luther King Jr.

  • #9
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Focus on your strengths, not your weaknesses.
    Focus on your character, not your reputation.
    Focus on your blessings, not your misfortunes.”
    Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

  • #10
    Henri J.M. Nouwen
    “The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it”
    Nouwen Henri J. M.

  • #11
    Thomas Fuller
    “Great hopes make great men.”
    Thomas Fuller
    tags: hope

  • #12
    Thomas Fuller
    “He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.”
    Thomas Fuller

  • #13
    Thomas Fuller
    “Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come--as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.”
    Thomas Fuller

  • #14
    Thomas Fuller
    “Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.”
    Thomas Fuller

  • #15
    Thomas Fuller
    “Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm.”
    Thomas Fuller

  • #16
    Thomas Fuller
    “Praise makes good Men better, and bad Men worse.”
    Thomas Fuller

  • #17
    Thomas Fuller
    “When thou shewest Respect to any one, see that thy Submissions be proportionable to the Homage thou owest him. There is Stupidity and Pride in doing too little; but in over acting of it, there is Abjection and Hypocrisy.”
    Thomas Fuller

  • #18
    Thomas Fuller
    “Always tell the Truth : where it is not loved, it is respected and feared.”
    Thomas Fuller, Introductio Ad Prudentiam: Or, Directions, Counsels, and Cautions, Tending to Prudent Management of Affairs in Common Life

  • #19
    Thomas Fuller
    “Thou mayst as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. 'Tis thought and digestion which make books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.”
    Thomas Fuller, Introductio Ad Prudentiam: Or, Directions, Counsels, and Cautions, Tending to Prudent Management of Affairs in Common Life

  • #20
    Thomas Fuller
    “He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.”
    Thomas Fuller

  • #21
    Thomas Fuller
    “Tis better for thee to be wise and not seem so, than to seem wise and not be so: Yet Men, for the most Part, desire and endeavor the contrary.”
    Thomas Fuller

  • #22
    Henepola Gunaratana
    “Don’t set goals for yourself that are too high to reach. Be gentle with yourself. You are trying to follow your own breathing continuously and without a break. That sounds easy enough, so you will have a tendency at the outset to push yourself to be scrupulous and exacting. This is unrealistic. Take time in small units instead.”
    Bhante Henepola Gunaratana, Mindfulness in Plain English

  • #23
    “Love is the only constant, the only reality, and when you accept and understand that you will know it.”
    Frank Natale, Relationships for Life: How Conscious Love Transcends Crisis, Pain and Self Avoidance

  • #24
    Mark Twain
    “Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today!”
    Mark Twain

  • #25
    Alice Walker
    “This life soon be over … Heaven last always”
    Alice Walker, The Color Purple

  • #26
    Shunryu Suzuki
    “While you are continuing this practice, week after week, year after year, your experience will become deeper and deeper, and your experience will cover everything you do in your everyday life. The most important thing is to forget all gain
    ing ideas, all dualistic ideas. In other words, just practice zazen in a certain posture. Do not think about anything. Just remain on your cushion without expecting anything. Then eventually you will resume your own true nature. That is to say, your own true nature resumes itself.”
    Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice



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