Nyogen Senzaki Quotes

#1. Was never true love loved in vain, For truest love is highest gain.

George Eliot

#2. Friends in the Dharma, be satisfied with your own heads. Do not put any false heads above your own. Then, minute after minute, watch your step closely.

Nyogen Senzaki

#3. Men be so foolish as to have delight and pleasure in the doubtful glistering of a trifling little stone, which may behold any of the stars or else the sun itself.

Thomas More

#4. There is no remainder in the mathematics of infinity. All life is one; therefore, there cannot be God and man, nor a universe and God. A god not in the world is a false god, and a world not in God is unreal. All things return to one, and one operates in all.

Nyogen Senzaki

#5. Basically, I am a good, gentle person, but I am attracted to mean personalities.

Rita Hayworth

#6. Then farewell, Horace; whom I hated so, Not for thy faults, but mine.

Lord Byron

#7. The physical and domestic education of daughters should occupy the principal attention of mothers, in childhood: and the stimulation of the intellect should be very much reduced.

Catharine Beecher

#8. That people so often believe themselves to be right is no proof that they are.

Jill Lepore

#9. Like this cup, you are full of your own opinions and speculations. How can I show you wisdom unless you first empty your cup?

Nyogen Senzaki

#10. The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality.

Rick Moody

#11. Every man naturally desires knowledge; but what good is knowledge without fear of God? Indeed a humble rustic who serves God is better than a proud intellectual who neglects his soul to study the course of the stars.

Thomas A Kempis

#12. I feel like my body doesn't judge the hours, you know? It doesn't care if it's daytime or nighttime.

Miles Teller

#13. You know you're getting old when everything hurts. And what doesn't hurt doesn't work.

Hy Gardner