Ancient Shinto Quotes

#1. The truth is that it's far easier to make a bomb than to educate four hundred million people.

Arundhati Roy

#2. Hope, objects in mirror are closer than they appear.

Sean Patrick Flanery

#3. He swallowed, his Adam's apple bobbing in his throat. Need assaulted him. In his entire life, he'd never felt desire like this. Or the desperation to touch, to hold, to own.

Jess Dee

#4. Only in novels can we take another human being into our head and create something jointly.

Mohsin Hamid

#5. Storytelling, mythology and film provide a lot of hope but, on the flip side, can also create delusion.

Aml Ameen

#6. The awareness of God's greatness gives joy and inner peace.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#7. It is not with earth, though I must till it, I feel at war..but I may not profit of what it bears of beauty,untoiling, Nor gratify my thousands swelling thoughts with knowledge, Nor allay my thousand fears of death and life.

George Gordon Byron

#8. The idea that everyone should have a house of his own is based on an ancient custom of the Japanese race, Shinto superstition ordaining that every dwelling should be evacuated on the death of its chief occupant.

Kakuzo Okakura

#9. He who understands one thing understands everything, for the same laws are in all.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#10. For spiritual teachers, it is important not to identify with the image people inevitably have of them.

Eckhart Tolle

#11. At Beth Israel there had been Acinetobacter baumannii, which was resistant to vancomycin. "That's how you know it's a hospital infection," I recall being told by a doctor I asked at Columbia Presbyterian. "If it's resistant to vanc it's hospital. Because vanc only gets used in hospital settings.

Joan Didion

#12. The themes that make one laugh always stem from poverty, hunger, misery, old age, sickness, and death. These are the themes that make Italians laugh, anyway.

Mario Monicelli

#13. If you can't be with the side you want, work to fix the side you're with.

C.T. Phipps

#14. It is important to understand that counterproducti ve actions of body, speech and mind do not arise of their own accord, but spring up in dependence on our motivation. Faulty states of mind give rise to faulty actions. To control negative physical and verbal actions, we need to tame our minds.

Dalai Lama

#15. On Easter or Christmas Day, my mother might drag me to church, just as she dragged me to the Buddhist temple, the Chinese New Year celebration, the Shinto shrine, and ancient Hawaiian burial sites.

Barack Obama

#16. You have the core hip-hop, which would just be beats and breaks, more something like what you hear with DJ Premier. Then you get into the more highly produced hip-hop, which is something like what DJ Khaled does. But at some point, it starts to get kind of pop.

Ice-T

#17. Great spirit, Great soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita