Buddhist Monastery Quotes

#1. Society doesn't need that everybody is behaving in the full normal way ... like people in a Buddhist monastery ... But eccentricity may also connect with the irrational.

John Muir

#2. Just after the Second World War Picasso bought a house in the South of France and paid for it with one still-life. Picasso has now in fact transcended the need for money. Whatever he wishes to own, he can acquire by drawing it. The truth has become a little like the fable of Midas.

John Berger

#3. I am a hard house freak and I don't care who knows.

Nick Frost

#4. They spend their time acquiring wisdom, acquiring wealth, or contributing to society. The problem is that many people act like they will live forever on earth and waste away their time in worthless pursuits. For example, try to imagine - what would you do if you only had one month to live?

H.W. Charles

#5. Death? Translated into the heavenly tongue, that word means life!

Henry Ward Beecher

#6. Real happiness is not vulnerable, because it does not depend on circumstances.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#7. Fall for someone you know will leave you,
sooner rather than later.

Ann Aguirre

#8. Good and bad exist always, everywhere

R. Alan Woods

#9. The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology.

John Spencer

#10. Love others and as you do, that love will return to you.

Clay Aiken

#11. If you resort to violent methods because the other side has destroyed your monastery, for example, you then have lost not only your monastery, but also your special Buddhist practices of detachment, love, and compassion.

Dalai Lama

#12. Christianity is not a doctrine, not truth as truth, but the knowledge of a Person; it is knowing the Lord Jesus. You cannot be educated into being a Christian.

Theodore Austin-Sparks