Shikantaza Instructions Quotes

#1. We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.

Cato The Elder

#2. There's a group of 12 oak trees on my property in California that I call 'my disciples.' Their branches form a canopy over the ground, and I sit underneath them for inspiration.

Oprah Winfrey

#3. Bad movies: they can be tatty classics of crazed ineptitude, like Edward D. Wood's 'Glen or Glenda' and 'Plan 9 from Outer Space,' or big-budget misfires like the 1987 'Ishtar,' a would-be comedy that sent Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman on a Hope-Crosby Road to Dystopia.

Richard Corliss

#4. I don't want to have to hide from the world anymore.

Sheryl Swoopes

#5. Mrs. Bright cut another slice of the rich, dark cake. It was Mindy's fourth, counting dessert at home. But Mrs. Bright's layer cakes were, Mindy felt sure, the best in the world. Where else did you find the layers of icing almost as thick as the layers of cake?

Jane Louise Curry

#6. Most religions do not make men better, only warier.

Elias Canetti

#7. I did not wanted to become the victim, so became the bully.

Tupac Shakur

#8. Nothing, of course, will ever take the place of the good old fashion of 'liking' a work of art or not liking it; the more improved criticism will not abolish that primitive, that ultimate, test.

Henry James

#9. Secret to remain young is to have an inordinate passion for pleasure.

Oscar Wilde

#10. But that is the dual gift of love, isn't it? The joy of greeting and the sorrow of good-bye.

Patricia Briggs