Unblown Quotes

#1. Temple of Suma
hearing the unblown flute
in the deep shade of trees
sumadera ya / fukanu fue kiku / koshitayami

Matsuo Basho

#2. It's long since I've gone to the East Mountains.
How many seasons have the tiny roses bloomed?
White clouds - unblown - fall apart.
In whose court has the bright moon dropped?

Li Bai

#3. Nobody on my staff is on salary. The money goes straight to the charities.

Ferguson Jenkins

#4. We think that behind that steel door of resistance there's a dragon breathing fire; if we open the door we think we'll be devoured. So often, we open the door, and as someone once said 'we don't find a fire breathing dragon, we find a gerbil in drag.

Raphael Cushnir

#5. when you stop to evolve, you start to dissolve.

Raiden Steven

#6. Wrap up the 20th century; Fred Astaire is gone.

Jack Kroll

#7. I want to be in a position where I feel comfortable selling an idea.

Scott Cohen

#8. I almost try to explain another untranslatable word--sunyata--to Jonas. The idea has Buddhist roots and several meanings, depending on context. I think emptiness is the closest word, but, in English, we infer emptiness as a void, a lack. Sunyata is open with possibility, a meditative space.

Emery Lord

#9. Another clue to finding true self and vocation: we must withdraw the negative projections we make on people and situations-projections that serve mainly to mask our fears about ourselves-and acknowledge and embrace our own liabilities and limits.

Parker J. Palmer

#10. Sin was like puzzle pieces floating on a river; once a few were placed together, the current pulled the outer edges apart and scattered the pieces away once again.

Ais

#11. But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all.

Nikolai Gogol

#12. Love thy neighbor, but pull not down thy hedge.

John Ray