Sheng Quotes

#1. Do not ask for less responsibility to be free and relaxed-ask for more strength!

Sheng Yen

#2. When a beautiful woman takes an idea firmly into her head, even if the walls are then thousand feet high, she cannot be prevented from carrying it out. But if she rejects it, yet it will be as though a thousand mountains kept you apart

Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng

#3. Honest people don't hide their deeds.

Emily Bronte

#4. For if someone died at an old age, or of natural causes, a funeral was a time of celebration rather than mourning.

Sheng-Shih Lin

#5. Those who do not have faith in others will not be able to stand on their own.

Sheng Yen

#6. I follow four dictates: face it, accept it, deal with it, then let it go.

Sheng Yen

#7. Why should a financial engineer be paid four, four times ... to a hundred times more than the, uh ... real engineer?
A real engineer build bridges, a financial engineer build, build dreams.
And when those dream turn out to be nightmares, other people pay for it.

Andrew Sheng

#8. If moment by moment you can keep your mind clear then nothing will confuse you.

Sheng Yen

#9. Evil and good meet with their due reward. Good fortune and ill luck walk side by side. But he who never walks the wrong path, need have no fear when comes the summons in the night.

Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng

#10. When pleasure reaches its height passions are
intense, and feelings know no bounds;
As the mouth of the "divine turtle"
disgorges ts "silvery stream.

Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng

#11. The modern State, whether in a totalitarian or a democratic country, has far too much power, and we are probably right to fear it.

Anthony Burgess

#12. Seven hearts the journey make.
Seven ways the hearts will break.
Bravest heart will carry on
When sleep is death, and hope is gone.
Look in the fiery jaws of fear
And see the answer white and clear,
Then throw away all thoughts of home,
For only then your quest is done.

Emily Rodda

#13. In meditation, silently and serenely, all words are transcended.
In Illumination, all things appear as is.
Silence is the ceasing of ego-grasping. Illumination is the functioning of the wonder of wisdom.
The unity of these two is awakening to Buddha Nature.

Sheng Yen

#14. One day, I decided to be an island. I took off my clothes and walked into the sea, then floated there, bobbing along with the tide, suspended by my inflatable tube and water wings.

Ng Yi-Sheng

#15. It is easy to change the landscape of mountains and rivers but it is difficult to change one's nature.

You-Sheng Li

#16. Any heart turned Godward feels more joyIn one short hour of prayer, than e'er was raisedBy all the feasts of earth since its foundation.

Philip James Bailey

#17. I have meant what I have done. Or I have often meant what I have done. Or I have sometimes meant what I have done. Or I have tried to mean what I was doing.

Jasper Johns