Yasutani Quotes

#1. The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there. -Yasutani Roshi, Zen master (1885-1973)

Yasutani Roshi

#2. Dance with the one who brung you.

Randy Pausch

#3. Joanna wondered if so elegant a man could, in truth, be a pirate.
Still, she could not deny the air of mystery about him or the intense fire in his dark eyes.
'Twas as if Lucifer himself had paid them a visit.

Regan Walker

#4. Apathy is giving up when we need to get up.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#5. Holistic Thinking is a combination of analysis, Systems Thinking, and Critical Thinking

Pearl Zhu

#6. The de'clic (DEH-kleek) is an aha moment when a child figures out how to do something important on his own...it's a welcome sign of maturity and autonomy.

Pamela Druckerman

#7. Even though flowers fall, don't regret it. Even though weeds grow, don't hate them. Don't arouse the passions of attraction and repulsion, hating and loving. If only we don't arouse the passions, the falling of flowers and the growing of weeds as they are is manifest absolute reality.

Hakuun Yasutani

#8. You never know how much a man can't remember until he is called as a witness.

Will Rogers

#9. Everything which has been done so far in human history has been able to be done because all were possible!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#10. How can I ask people who work for me to travel cheaply if I am traveling in luxury?

Ingvar Kamprad

#11. I am deeply moved by things. I'd hate to miss the intense joy of that.

Elaine N. Aron

#12. She touched his face and tied his hair back for him. Her hands were cool. He had never felt anything pleasanter in all his life than the touch of her hands. He reached out for her hand. She was not there, she had gone.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#13. Make your move BEFORE you are ready!

Les Brown

#14. I have never been wired to be front and centre of spotlight and ready to dance.

Ryan Lewis

#15. As for their child, I am moved in two ways. He will have his own world to make. Being of neither East nor West purely, he will be rejected of each, for none will understand him. But I think, if he has the strength of both his parents, he will understand both worlds, and so overcome.

Pearl S. Buck

#16. I am convinced that I am acting as the agent of our Almighty Creator. By fighting the Jews, I am doing the Lord's work.

Adolf Hitler

#17. O Solitude! You are my home, Solitude!

Friedrich Nietzsche