Shunryu Suzuki Roshi Quotes

#1. Life is like stepping into a boat that is about to sail out to sea and sink. - SHUNRYU SUZUKI ROSHI A

Pema Chodron

#2. We are who we are because of what we learn and what we remember.

Abhijit Naskar

#3. Events of human origin are uncertain, but all is regulated and governed by the incalculable power of God, inspiring us not through drunken fury nor by frantic movement, but through the influences of the stars.

Nostradamus

#4. It's good to remember even during your darkest hour, you are not here to be punished.You are here to serve.

Jerry Snider

#5. There has been a fundamental paradigm shift. Today's customer expectations are: If i can imagine it, it simply has to be there; if not, I'll invent it myself'

Kim Williams

#6. Education is such a noble profession, it's a wonderful way to serve.

Erin Gruwell

#7. My whole family was Muslim, and most of the people I knew were Muslim.

Maya Soetoro-Ng

#8. It would be lovely if it was all Right vs. Wrong, Good overcomes Evil - I think most Americans, going about their daily lives, fool themselves into thinking that that's how our little world works, but it just isn't so.

Lynn Flewelling

#9. The shadow of someone's greatness is not a good place to dwell. Being the next someone else pales into insignificance against being the first you.

John Paul Bernett

#10. Language evolves and moves on. It is an organic thing. It is not stuck in an ivory tower, hung with expensive works of art and overlooking most of Seattle with a helipad stuck on its roof.

E.L. James

#11. A student, filled with emotion and crying, implored, "Why is there so much suffering?"
Suzuki Roshi replied, "No reason.

Shunryu Suzuki

#12. By the time President Obama took office, Guantanamo was viewed internationally as a symbol of a counterterrorism approach that flouted our laws and strayed from our values, undercutting the perceived legitimacy - and therefore the effectiveness - of our efforts.

John O. Brennan

#13. He'd been living a lie since he arrived. He'd pretended to be a local, yet had loathed everything about Milwaukee. Now Al knew differently. He didn't want to be anything else but himself: a cheese curd-loving, festival-going, Brew Crew fan who adored the most incredible chef in the city.

Amy E. Reichert

#14. Excuses are like backsides. Everybody's got one, and they all stink.

Becky Monson

#15. I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.

Lillian Hellman