Bowing Quotes

“Calmness of mind does not mean you should stop your activity. Real calmness should be found in activity itself. We say, "It is easy to have calmness in inactivity, it is hard to have calmness in activity, but calmness in activity is true calmness.”
― Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

“The Oracle rose. As one, the three witches bowed.
"See?" Bran jerked his thumb at the three women. "That's how a woman should treat a man. Next time you see me, I want you to do just like them.”
― Ilona Andrews, Magic Burns

“What's he doing?" Bethany asked. "He's bowing.'Good day milday." Bethany giggled. "Crocodiles don't bow."
"They should when they meet a princess.”
― Kerrelyn Sparks, The Undead Next Door

“When everything exists within your big mind, all dualistic relationships drop away. There is no distinction between heaven and earth, man and woman, teacher and disciple. Sometimes a man bows to a woman; sometimes a woman bows to a man. Sometimes the disciple bows to the master; sometimes the master bows to the disciple... In your big mind, everything has the same value.”
― Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

“Don’t bow before anyone because no one is superior to you, they are only different from you!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Bow Your Heads If You Are Over It!
Stand To Your Feet As A Solder By, In, And Through Christ And Fight The Good Fight No Matter The Cost! When You Are Over It Then You Truly Can Be An Apostle Of Christ!”
― John M. Sheehan, What Lies Beneath Us

“And so they did what their people had always done before Death's beautiful face. They bowed.

Chest-deep in the water, they couldn't bow far, but they lowered their heads until their faces nearly touched the surface.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A ​Court of Silver Flames

“He flashed a knowing grin. 'Sweet deviant. You like me bowing before you?”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Throne of the Fallen

“We can say either that we make progress little by little, or that we do not even expect to make progress. Just to be sincere and make our full effort in each moment is enough.”
― Shunryu Suzuki

“Our dispersing party watched as he braced my waist in his broad hands and easily hefted me off the horse, none more closely than Ianthe.

I only patted Lucien on the shoulder in thanks. Ever the courtier, he bowed back.

It was hard, sometimes, to remember to hate him. To remember the game I was already playing.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin

“Bowing helps to eliminate our self-centered ideas... The result is not the point; it is the effort to improve ourselves that is valuable... whether or not it is possible is not the point... Before you determine to do it, you have difficulty, but once you start to do it, you have none.”
― Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

“God’s great heart of love cannot be satisfied until he sees the nations that he loves bowing in worship before him”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Also intriguing was all the bowing. The association of height and status did not, of course, faze him. If anything, it made the Japanese seem noble. But where were the ones who made themselves big? That was the question. With so many people bowing down, it seemed to Majnoun like a competition amongst the low to see who could be lowest. In which case, discretion was strength, a paradox that Majnoun found almost as compelling as the film's relative absence of dogs.”
― André Alexis, Fifteen Dogs

“In absorbing the good of someone, even bowing is an act of rising.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Servitude is Sanctitude

“I see you brought home a new pet,' she said, nose crinkling with distaste.

Something like fear had entered Lucien's eyes, as if he, too, beheld the monster that lurked beneath that beautiful face.


Indeed, it seemed he had heard of her already. Before I could introduce him, Lucien bowed at the waist. Deeply. Cassian let out an amused grunt, and I shot him a warning glare.

Amren smiled slightly. 'Already trained, I see.'

Lucien slowly straightened, as if he were standing before the open maw of some great plains-cat he did not wish to startle with sudden movements.

'Amren, this is Lucien... Vanserra.'

Lucien stiffened. 'I don't use my family's name.' He clarified to Amren with another incline of his head. 'Lucien will do.'

I suspected he'd ceased using that name the moment his lover's heart had stopped beating.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin