Dhammananda Quotes

#1. I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others.

James Taylor

#2. I am a poet who composes what life proses, and who proses what life composes.

Khalil Gibran

#3. The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist knows it.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

#4. I've let a lot of things go, and obviously football is one of them. I think the hardest thing to let go is your self-image. That's what I'm working on now.

Ricky Williams

#5. Children frequently sing meaningful phrases to themselves over and over again before they learn to make a distinction between singing and saying.

David Antin

#6. The moon is at her full, and riding high, Floods the calm fields with light. The airs that hover in the summer sky Are all asleep tonight.

William C. Bryant

#7. Nothing could appear to be more human than refusing to believe extinction possible so long as you were encircled by luscious eggplants and ripe tomatoes[..]

Philip Roth

#8. When I'm buying car insurance I ask myself, 'Which company has the most annoying and relentless commercials?'

Demetri Martin

#9. The first precept in Buddhism is "Do not kill." This precept is not merely a legalistic prohibition, but a realization of our affinity with all who share the gift of life. A compassionate heart provides a firm ground for this precept.

Dhammananda Bhikkhuni

#10. This is the whole point of technology. It creates an appetite for immortality on the one hand. It threatens universal extinction on the other. Technology is lust removed from nature. - Murray (WN 285)

Don DeLillo

#11. I like a man with a nice, self-deprecating sense of humour.

Christina Hendricks

#12. Insecurity is the result of trying to be secure.

Alan Watts

#13. You wouldn't have the same art on the walls at every restaurant or the same waiter uniforms. Neither should you have the same service style at every restaurant.

Danny Meyer