Drishti Ias Essay Quotes

#1. A Zen student asked his roshi the most important element of Zen.The roshi replied, "Attention." "Yes, thank you," the student replied. "But can you tell me the second most important element?"And the roshi replied, "Attention."

Dan Millman

#2. Yet he argued that even a tedious topic can take on a certain fascination if you make an effort to look at it afresh: The subject must be made to show new aspects of itself; to prompt new questions; in a word, to change. From an unchanging subject the attention inevitably wanders away.

Winifred Gallagher

#3. When you figure out that you're fighting some other man's war, walk away.

A.G. Riddle

#4. He had learned early on the trick of living separately in a crowd, private in his mind when his body could not be. But he was born a mountain-dweller, and had learned early, too, the enchantment of solitude, and the healing of quiet places.

Diana Gabaldon

#5. Texas is rich in unredeemed dreams

Larry McMurtry

#6. Then you will pick yourself up, no matter how tired you are, and go forward again and again and again, until you've reached liberation.

Frederick Lenz

#7. For what is delusion but the prelude to hurt. And what is hurt but the prelude to rage.

Joyce Carol Oates