Top 19 Hsing Yun Quotes
#1. On today's athletes: I wish I could turn back the clock a little bit so I'd have a chance to cut it up with those guys.
#2. Intention is the core of all conscious life. Conscious intention colors and moves everything.
#3. Books are not brands. Some people are very willing to see themselves as a brand, but you can't be a certain type of writer to a certain type of person all the time. It will kill you.
#4. When Buddhists say, "A bodhisattva fears not the result, but only the cause," they mean that we must expend the bulk of our energy planting good roots today, rather than fretting about the plants that are already growing from the roots we planted in the past.
#5. You learn from your mistakes, or you go backward. I'm the kind of person who wants to move forward.
#6. Even if I'm writing music, it's with a lyric in mind, to communicate some kind of feeling.
#7. When asked how he could tell the difference, the saint said that you can only tell which is which by the way you feel after the creature has left your company. If you are appalled, he said, then it was a devil who had visited you. If you feel lightened, it was an angel.
#8. The distinction between 'prejudice' and 'principle' is itself a matter of prejudice.
#9. Testing was never going to be fashionable, but you could hardly run a respectable software development shop with no testing effort at all.
#10. The principle of work is part of self-discipline. Now, my dear young sisters, I have lived a good many years longer than you, but even back in Grandpa's time there was something to make you want to lie down and go to sleep-they called it work.
#11. Reality is like a face reflected in the blade of a knife; its properties depend on the angle from which we view it.
#12. O, that's a brave man! He writes brave verses, speaks brave words, swears brave oaths, and breaks them bravely,
#13. Calmly contemplating these dimensions and bringing them into the service of compassion and kindness is the right way to make rapid gains in meditation as well as in life.
#14. Compassion is truth in its purest form.
#15. That's right, kid. Never play an ace if a two will do.
#16. Hard news really is hard. It sticks not in the craw but in the mind. It has an almost physical effect, causing fear, interest, laughter or shock.
#17. Do not blame others for your unhappiness, for everything is due to cause and effect.
#18. When you have worked with them, when you have lived with them, you do not have to wonder how they feel, because you feel it yourself.
#19. You will receive what you ask for no more, no less
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