Quotes About Buddhist Monks

#1. From my own personal encounters and studies with both Tantric and Zen Buddhist monks, I have found them to be humorous, warm, charming, and compassionate.

Frederick Lenz

#2. Many people, including Buddhist monks, spend thousands of hours sitting in what they call meditation. In reality, what they're doing is thinking and ruminating upon their problems.

Frederick Lenz

#3. Originally, I was interested in athletic pursuits like snowboarding, martial arts and surfing. When I went to the Himalayas and met a number of Buddhist monks I was introduced to a new way of looking at life.

Frederick Lenz

#4. As Buddhist monks, our task is to bring ourselves resolutely more and more into light, to forgive and forget, to forget those who create problems for us because to remember them is only to keep problems is mind.

Frederick Lenz

#5. Wouldn't it be great if health-care plans included a list of Buddhist monks among the network providers?

Regina Brett

#6. Buddhist monks have known for centuries that meditation can change the mind. Now we are inspired by His Holiness to examine with our technology the precise brain changes that occur with practice ... The unique collaboration on meditation is just beginning.

Richard Davidson

#7. The husband just nods back at her with an indescribably harmonious smile. The very sort of smile that makes decent folk want to slap Buddhist monks in the face, Ove thinks to himself.

Fredrik Backman

#8. You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.

Cameron Diaz

#9. Just studying Buddhism, then meditating and going to Buddhist monasteries, talking to Buddhist monks, combined with the Thai people themselves, changed the way I look at the world.

John Burdett

#10. The very sort of smile that makes decent folk want to slap Buddhist monks in the face,

Fredrik Backman

#11. I've already written 300 space poems. But I look upon my ultimate form as being a poetic prose. When you read it, it appears to be prose, but within the prose you have embedded the techniques of poetry.

Story Musgrave

#12. [...] the kind of healer who knows that sometimes one must inflict terrible agony - rebreak a bone, carve off a limb, kill the weak - in order to make the whole stronger.

N.K. Jemisin

#13. To others we are not ourselves but performers in their lives cast for a part we do not even know we are playing.

Elizabeth Bibesco

#14. The labour movement had the best opportunity in 50 years to transform not merely an industrial situation and win an important battle for workers in struggle, but an opportunity to change the government of the day.

Arthur Scargill

#15. Like pebbles in a bag, the monks polish each other.

Unknown

#16. Margot used to like describing men as 'my unhappy love affair.' But hadn't that presumed the existence of a happy love affair that made the others unimportant? What is unhappy is the only kind Margo ever has?

Francine Prose

#17. All change is due to time, therefore if you
Are freed from time, you're free from changing too.

Jalaluddin Rumi

#18. Buddhism is in your heart. Even if you don't have any temple or any monks, you can still be a Buddhist in your heart and life.

Nhat Hanh

#19. There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt. And, of course, there are Christian monks and nuns who already use Buddhist methods in order to develop their devotion, compassion, and ability to forgive.

Dalai Lama

#20. I think the voters can make up their own minds.

Jeb Bush

#21. Because makeup is a lie.

Rainbow Rowell

#22. I remember being wise beyond my years when I was little.

Rebecca Ferguson

#23. If I'm going to be 'too' anything, 'too cute' is fine. I love puppies. So what? Who hates puppies?

Zooey Deschanel

#24. Whatever Elly does - is useless, but for him it's important to do it. (regarding Elly Kleinman - Paul's grandfather)

Paul Kleinman

#25. There is, Oh Monks, a not-born, a not-become, a not-made, a not-compounded. Monks, if that unborn, not-become, not-made, not-compounded were not, there would be no escape from this here that is born, become, made and compounded.

Gautama Buddha

#26. When I first came into the business, I had to, for the sake of being able to sell myself as an artist, always be happy and jovial and smiling. I was the happy nice girl, and I am the happy nice girl, but I have my moments, too.

Kelly Price

#27. I never dreamed the sea so deep, The earth so dark; so long my sleep, I have become another child. I wake to see the world go wild.

Allen Ginsberg

#28. Every individual is representative of the whole ... and should be intimately understood, and this would give a far greater understanding of mass movements and sociology.

Anais Nin

#29. To man, that was in th' evening made,
Stars gave the first delight;
Admiring, in the gloomy shade,
Those little drops of light.

Edmund Waller