Bhante Wimala Quotes

#1. It is easy in retrospect to see why he'd want to go. There are two women who are furious at him. To make one happy, he must take the subway across town and arrive on her doorstep. To make the other happy, he must wear for some infinitely long period of time a hair shirt woven out of her own hair.

Jenny Offill

#2. Justice in terms of "right" or "wrong" is a man-made concept.

Amish Tripathi

#3. The fatal false step which, once taken, would thrust her down into the terrible slavery of appetite and hate and economics and government which our race knows so well.

C.S. Lewis

#4. We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.

John Dryden

#5. The effort of the genuine spiritual seeker should be to cultivate love until the mind becomes saturated by it.

Bhante Y. Wimala

#6. The only thing that'll drive the cockiness out of me is you faking an orgasm. And I don't see that happening any time soon.

Samantha Young

#7. You guys get up too early for one thing, you should get up a little later. And your practice is too grim. I have just two instructions for you this week. One is to breathe, and one is to smile.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#8. Boys are still led to believe that power is associated with domination.

Pedro Noguera

#9. It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss - a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world.

Arthur Helps

#10. Marriage was created by the hand of God. No man, not even a Supreme Court, can undo what a holy God has instituted.

Michele Bachmann

#11. The feeling of love - is a fervent desire of goodness to a man.

Simon Soloveychik

#12. Wit and judgment often are at strife.

Alexander Pope