Sunflower Sutra Quotes

#1. ... we're all beautiful golden sunflowers inside, we're all blessed by our own seed & golden hairy naked accomplishment
(Sunflower Sutra)

Allen Ginsberg

#2. A lot of African wildlife is very big. If you're protecting the big stuff, you're usually protecting the small stuff, too.

Patrick Bergin

#3. I obsessed, and told myself this obsession was empathy. But it wasn't, quite. It was more like inpathy. I wasn't expatriating myself into another life so much as importing its problems into my own. p 20

Leslie Jamison

#4. But, is it possible for princes and ministers to be enlightened, when private individuals are not so?

Jean-Baptiste Say

#5. Many people in the world today are not starving because there is an inherent inability to produce food, they are starving because they are caught in the middle of political fights and blockades that have been used as weapons.

Ralph Merkle

#6. One of the main reasons people fail to reach their full potential is because they are unwilling to risk anything. They are fearful of losing, failing, or getting hurt and just want to do the things they believe will keep them safe.

Zig Ziglar

#7. Eve, I know this continues to astound and baffle you, but I actually like to socialize."
"I know. If it wasn't for that, you'd be perfect.

J.D. Robb

#8. The message of guidance that neither politics nor philosophy nor religion now seems able to provide, we look for in modern literature.

Irving Howe

#9. The artistic side of our family was very important because one person encourages the other. It was a vey enlightening place to be as a kid because of all the music and dancing, and my dad played banjo; my sisters played piano and sang.

Dave Davies