Chan Buddhism Quotes

#1. He began to see why Merlyn had always clowned on purpose. It had been a means of helping people to learn in a happy way.

T.H. White

#2. I know, interference is one of the very few things that is apparently against the rules. I do not intend to interfere, I intend to learn his systems so I can stop having to constantly manage so much of the circus.

Erin Morgenstern

#3. On one hand, it seems like I've waited a long time for this.

Karrie Webb

#4. Everything sacred, nothing sacred.

Bodhidharma

#5. Glory ought to be the consequence, not the motive, of our actions; and although it happen not to attend the worthy deed, yet it is by no means the less fair for having missed the applause it deserved.

Pliny The Younger

#6. The steamboat left the harbor and it was something in this world, the paddle thundering, the smokestack blowing, and people lined up on the top deck waving handkerchiefs. I watched it

Sue Monk Kidd

#7. The end and aim of spying in all its five varieties is knowledge of the enemy; and this knowledge can only be derived, in the first instance, from the converted spy. Hence it is essential that the converted spy be treated with the utmost liberality.

Sun Tzu

#8. When a puppy takes fifty catnaps in the course of the day, he cannot always be expected to sleep the night through.

Albert Payson Terhune

#9. People like you always want back the love they pushed aside. But people like me are gone forever when you say goodbye.

Taylor Swift

#10. You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Violet Trefusis

#11. How did you learn to cock so well?" I sputtered, "I mean cook!"
She rolled her eyes and shook her head. I gave her a grin and a wink. "You do both so well, baby, my cock and the cooking part.
-Ethan

Raine Miller

#12. I enjoyed singing and playing guitar but didn't have the stamina to make music-making a career. In reality, writing was my real gift, and as soon as I figured that out I never looked back.

Ann Powers

#13. No outward practices will stand in the place of the new birth. Nothing under heaven will stand in its place.

John Wesley

#14. There are essentially two main reasons to hold a phone up at a show. First, to capture a memory for yourself, a reminder of the moment you're enjoying. And second, to share that moment with someone - to express your emotions socially. Both seem perfectly legitimate to me.

John Battelle

#15. There is water in every lane, so it is OK.

Ian Thorpe