Top 17 Thanissaro Bhikkhu Quotes
#1. Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone.
Phyllis McGinley
#2. Don't be a slave to style. Don't take more from the world than you're willing to give back. And learn to undo the perceptions-so heavily promoted by the media-that shopping is a form of therapy and that a purchase is nothing but a victory or a gain.
Thanissaro Bhikkhu
#3. Men who betray women also betray other men. Women shouldn't feel so special.
Garry Shandling
#4. The key to maintaining your inspiration in the day-to-day work of meditation practice is to approach it as play - a happy opportunity to master practical skills, to raise questions, experiment, and explore.
Thanissaro Bhikkhu
#5. A philosophical thought has probably not attained all its sharpness and all its illumination until it is expressed in French
Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve
#6. She was conscious of being alive and being present: a clear night, a golden beach, good food.
Elin Hilderbrand
#7. Searching all directions with one's awareness, one finds no one dearer than oneself. In the same way, others are fiercely dear to themselves. So one should not hurt others if one loves oneself.
Thanissaro Bhikkhu
#8. [David] Bowie had a genius for continual change himself, reinventing his sound and his image throughout the decades. Each album seemed to find Bowie in a different persona, with a new sound to match his new look.
David Bowie
#9. The Buddha's last words instructed us to be heedful - to see our actions as important and to keep that importance in mind at all times.
Thanissaro Bhikkhu
#10. Remember that you don't have to like or admire someone to feel compassion for that person. All you have to do is wish for that person to be happy.
Thanissaro Bhikkhu
#12. God, how that stings! I've spent a lifetime loving science fiction and now I find that you must expect nothing of something that's just science fiction.
Isaac Asimov
#13. One of the things that make motorcycling so great is because it never fails to give you a feeling of freedom and adventure.
Steve McQueen
#14. An hour later. the moon reflected its light on the Tigris as well. The sun, the moon, and Fatima. What else could I ask for?
Ahmad Ardalan
#15. Of course, I started really being a comics fan with the underground stuff in the '70s.
Glenn Danzig
#16. Starlets were always turning up dead in people's pools. They fished them out like goldfish. Nobody seemed to find it unusual that so many young, beautiful women wanted to die.
Jonathan Rosen
