Thomas Cleary Quotes

#1. Because of barriers of knowledge, barriers of state, and barriers of action, seeing your own buddha nature is like seeing color at night.

Thomas Cleary

#2. Money won is twice as sweet as money earned.

Paul Newman

#3. The Buddhas speak the wondrous sound throughout the world; the Teachings spoken over countless ages can all be expounded in a single word.

Thomas Cleary

#4. Never let anyone tell you how to live your life.

Mark Hoppus

#5. I enjoyed the position I was in as a tennis player. I was to blame when I lost. I was to blame when I won. And I really like that, because I played soccer a lot too, and I couldn't stand it when I had to blame it on the goalkeeper.

Roger Federer

#6. The career politicians in Washington had transformed a government "for the people" into a government for themselves and for special interests.

Tom Coburn

#7. The Buddha is like space, with no inherent nature; appearing in the world to benefit the living, his features and refinements are like reflections.

Thomas Cleary

#8. They pretend to themselves that they fix you and then release you back into the world, back amongst your prey.
"Humanize people, Ryan."
They told me.
That's problem, I already did.
Humans are weak.

Ker Dukey

#9. Personal feelings don't make for good politics, legal decisions, or business deals.

Roger Zelazny

#10. If they'd wanted a nice parrot, they wouldn't have asked for me.

Gilbert Gottfried

#11. Knowing that all of manifestation and creation starts on the most subtle levels, and then sequentially unfolds itself like the seed growing into a tree, it is also the level from which change occurs, from which any form of transformation from one state into the next occurs.

Maha Devi Li Ra La

#12. The excitable observer will pass judgement first and then make knowledge conform to judgement; the prudent observer will first learn to know and then judge according to knowledge.

Thomas Cleary

#13. Then he did a strange thing. He lifted my hand to his lips and kissed my palm."
"I died. That was like the sweetest thing.

Julie Anne Peters

#14. Look for loyal ministers in homes with filial sons

Thomas Cleary