Top 18 Kobun Quotes
#1. When all the teachers are gone, who will be your teacher?
The student replied: "Everything!
Kobun, paused, then said: "No, you".
Kobun Chino Otogawa Roshi
#3. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
Gautama Buddha
#4. I was more afraid that in a few words thrown out he might destroy something that I loved. What if his words had the effect of polio on me? What a terrible disease that must be if it could kill God in a man.
Yann Martel
#5. Her touch was as knowing and confident as her eyes, and as she focused all her attention upon me, I remembered that there is nothing so thrilling as a woman of words when she decides that the time for words is past.
Greg Iles
#6. My experiences growing up in both a Chinese American household and the Catholic Church define much of who I am.
Gene Luen Yang
#7. All over Harlem, Negro boys and girls are growing into stunted maturity, trying desperately to find a place to stand; and the wonder is not that so many are ruined but that so many survive.
James A. Baldwin
#8. When I come home, I'm just Maisie, and everywhere I go, I'm just Maisie!
Maisie Williams
#9. .. after reflecting for a few moments, he added, 'I think that everything would be a lot simpler if instead of looking for the Grail or some other relic, people tried to find love. Don't you agree?
Emilio Calderon
#10. Marriage as an institution is not so much threatened by same-sex couples as it is by heterosexuals' increasing indifference to it,
Mike Huckabee
#12. I think the greatest gifts we can give each other in a relationship are the gifts of kindness and communication.
Jane Green
#13. Whenever I let him in he would halt on the threshold drawing the whole of his luminous life up into his smile.
Mina Loy
#14. The more you sense the rareness and value of your own life, the more you realize that how you use it, how you manifest it, is all your responsibility. We face such a big task, so naturally we sit down for a while.
Kobun Chino Otogawa Roshi
#16. I'm not Mother Teresa, but I'm not Charles Manson, either.
Mike Tyson
#17. Chess reflects the real world in miniature. Endeavor, struggle, success, and defeat - they are part of each game ever played.
Bruce Pandolfini
#18. If life is a business, then you are blessed with an abundance of capital which is your unconditional love.
Debasish Mridha
