Katagiri Roshi Quotes

#1. Katagiri Roshi says: "Poor artists. They suffer very much. They finish a masterpiece and they are not satisfied. They want to go on and do another." Yes, but it's better to go on and do another if you have the urge than to start drinking and become alcoholic or eat a pound of good fudge and get fat.

Natalie Goldberg

#2. He inclined his head ever so slightly, displaying with his bearing the supreme confidence, even arrogance, that is the sole providence of cats, dragons, and certain highborn women.

Christopher Paolini

#3. You learn more from getting your butt kicked than getting it kissed.

Tom Hanks

#4. Many of the gunters on the front lines took an involuntary step backward. A few others turned and ran for their lives.

Ernest Cline

#5. Money they got at their wedding. She watched The

Jodi Picoult

#6. If he didn't have Ronnie already in his arms he'd have assumed she'd just opened the door ... and aged a few years. Wow, he thought in surprise, she's going to be hot when we hit fifty.

Shelly Laurenston

#7. On Shaw's principle that "if you don't get what you like, you better like what you get,

F. Scott Fitgerald

#8. If everyone agreed to become vegetarian, leaving little or nothing for livestock, the present 1.4 billion hectares of arable land (3.5 billion acres) would support about 10 billion people,

E. O. Wilson

#9. I (Percy) set Nico on guard duty with Beckendorf and the Stoll brothers, figuring he'd be safely out of the way.
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"What's happening?" Nico demanded, trying to climb up next to me.

Rick Riordan

#10. A well-spun tale can transport listeners away from their humdrum lives and return them with an enlarged sense of the world. (Peter Nimble)

Jonathan Auxier

#11. Nothing harms or destroys us but the wrong use of that liberty of choice which God has entrusted to us.

William Law

#12. Life was too heavy on her feet in that place to leap dramatically when something apparently exciting happened.

Patrick Kavanagh

#13. You got me a birthday cake. It was pink. I smashed it into the ceiling.

Karen Marie Moning