If You Meet The Buddha On The Road Quotes

#1. In Zen Buddhism it is said that "if you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him". Which means that if by walking on the spiritual path you encounter the rigid ideas and fixed laws of institutionalised Buddhism , you must free yourself from them too.

Yuval Noah Harari

#2. If You Meet The Buddha On The Road, Kill Him

Linji Yixuan

#3. So far, I have been a spectator in this theatre which is the world, but I am now about to mount the stage, and I come forward masked.

Rene Descartes

#4. If they cheat, can I shoot them?

Laurell K. Hamilton

#5. All mothers worry, but Black mothers, we have to worry a little bit more.

Jodi Picoult

#6. That's the thing about being young
we are textbook pages
of trial and error
falling down and getting up
not by way of standing and
brushing off our jeans
buy by laying where we fell
until we were high enough to forget

Kalyn Roseanne Livernois

#7. I think it's natural as you get to the end of your twenties to start thinking about what you could have done differently - whether they went well or whether they went terribly.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

#8. The book did not say anything about a statue, valuable or otherwise, and so I stopped reading about the Bombinating Beast and got interested in the chapter about the Stain'd witches, who had ink instead of blood in their veins. I wondered what they kept in their pens.

Lemony Snicket

#9. But if love wasn't just yours first, it was like cutting up and handing out your birthday cake before you blew out the candles.

Deb Caletti

#10. Perhaps I'd been a slow developer, but I was well into my forties before I realized that you don't have to comply with a request just because it's reasonable or reasonably put. Age is the great dis-obliger. You can be yourself and say no.

Ian McEwan

#11. Unveiling the lies that we live by can ultimately help reveal the truth.

Miranda J. Barrett

#12. Wedding fever is one of the scariest diseases I have ever seen.

Jessica Valenti

#13. School is temporary. Education is not. If you want to prosper in life: find something that fascinates you and jump all over it. Don't wait for someone to teach you; your enthusiasm will attract teachers to you. Don't worry about diplomas or degrees; just get so good that no one can ignore you.

James Marcus Bach