Shimano Quotes

#1. Tai Shimano visited Shunryu Suzuki. "How are you feeling these days?" Suzuki replied, "They have a new name for me: Cancer!"

Shunryu Suzuki

#2. Whoever you are, go out into the evening,
leaving your room, of which you know every bit;
your house is the last before the infinite,
whoever you are.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#3. But it was excruciating to emerge from my eerie submarine existence into this harsh stampede of noise and light.

Donna Tartt

#4. Fuck it,' I hear him mutter, and the next thing I know he's taking hold of my hand.

Samantha Towle

#5. Sustaining silence and circumspection are two behaviors that lead to better, healthier outcomes. They are powerful without dominating.

Judith Orloff

#6. You are more likely to be overweight if your friend's, friend's friend is overweight than if your parents are overweight.

Mark Hyman

#7. A Zendo is not a peaceful haven
but a furnace room for the combustion
of our egotistical delusions.

Eido Shimano Roshi

#8. In a nation run by swine, all pigs are upward-mobile and the rest of us are fucked until we can put our acts together: not necessarily to win, but mainly to keep from losing completely.

Hunter S. Thompson

#9. You get most things in life not by taking, but by giving.

Bryant H. McGill

#10. If I'm going through something, I paint through it. It's very physical. I'm writing, I'm thinking, I'm meditating, I'm moving, I'm jumping off ladders, and it's therapeutic.

Jose Parla

#11. Thieves, Heretics, and Whores

Patrick Rothfuss