Thrangu Quotes

#1. When will conventional good manners become attractive? When will ladies of fashion exhibit their shoulders a little less and their affability and wit a little more?

Honore De Balzac

#2. Thoughts and feelings change sometimes, as one crosses the frontiers.

Villiers De L'Isle-Adam

#3. To depersonalize man is the dominant drift of our times.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#4. There are people out there with an eye on my hard-earned cash who think that I am a pushover. I am not!

Wilbur Smith

#5. Meditation is not supposed to be the fabrication or the reinforcement of some particular state, but simply the cultivation of the awareness of whatever is arising in the mind.

Thrangu Rinpoche

#6. Life can deal you an amazing hand. Do you play it steady, bluff like crazy or go all in?

Joe Simpson

#7. In a service situation, each delay can mean many unsatisfied customers, each one telling many more.

Ron Kaufman

#8. Roses! I swear you men have all your romance from the same worn book. Flowers are a good thing, a sweet thing to give a lady. But it is always roses, always red, and always perfect hothouse blooms when they can come by them.

Patrick Rothfuss