Zen Cohen Quotes

#1. Have a chocolate-covered raisin," he said.
"They look like rat droppings," said the Chair.
The Dean peered at them in the gloom.
"So that's it," he said. "The bag fell on the floor a minute ago, and I thought there seemed rather a lot.

Terry Pratchett

#2. If you wish to draw profit, read with humility, simplicity, and faith, and never with the design of gaining a reputation for learning.

Thomas A Kempis

#3. So this is what SmackDown looks like.

Shawn Michaels

#4. The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible. So I'll play in bands and record and play songs with other people, but for me it's a form of expression that all I need is me. I don't need cameras or agents, I can just have a piano and sing and feel totally verified.

Jeremy Renner

#5. I love all the different ways that New Yorkers show their individuality through what they choose to wear.

Henrik Lundqvist

#6. A teacher I once had told me that the older you get, the lonelier you become and the deeper the love you need. Loneliness creates an appetite for deeper love, and the entire predicament deepens. And as a result of suffering, your capacity to love deeply increases.

Leonard Cohen

#7. Nobody goes into a Zen monastery as a tourist.

Leonard Cohen

#8. Take action once a day to do something that ignites your life.

Gabrielle Bernstein

#9. Every heart needs a cutting part sharper than a blade to stab agony

Munia Khan

#10. More than Israel has kept the Sabbath, the Sabbath has kept Israel.

Ahad Ha'am

#11. Two people can make love but that isn't necessarily love.

Greta Scacchi

#12. I have always played into the belief that you are only ever borrowing the jersey; you never own the jersey because someone has gone before you and there is going to be someone after you, so it's a case of giving the jersey maximum respect.

Brian O'Driscoll

#13. Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man's world.

Barbra Streisand

#14. Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I've practiced, there is no prayerful worship and there is no affirmation of a deity.

Leonard Cohen