Zen Master Dogen Quotes

#1. Zen Master Dogen has pointed out that anxiety, when accepted, is the driving force to enlightenment in that it lays bare the human dilemma at the same time that it ignites our desire to break out of it.

Philip Kapleau

#2. Inspiration comes from everything from the entire world, and it's hard to pinpoint one thing. I can trace one inspiration to the writing of 13th-century Zen master Dogen Zenji, who writes beautifully about time.

Ruth Ozeki

#3. And [Benji] cheats on you, Beck. A lot. Compulsively. He is in intense pursuit of a performance artist who fucks with his head the way he fucks with yours.

Caroline Kepnes

#4. I let out a breath I didn't know I'd been holding

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#5. - ... .when things seem to have reached that stage, merely say "I won't play any longer", and take your departure; but if you stay, stop lamenting.

Epictetus

#6. You might be the scariest girl I've ever met," he told her.
"Let's not be dramatic," she said drily. "I'm the only girl you can remember ever meeting.

Sherry Thomas

#7. You and I are stymied in our own creativity. We can only create as sub-creators, and even then our best work is only sub-creation.

Matt Chandler

#8. Yesterday's triumph of scoring two goals is forgotten.

Adele Parks

#9. All central beliefs on human matters spring from a personal predicament.

Isaiah Berlin

#10. To the wickedness of the Papacy humanity owes much. The goodness of the Papacy owes a terrible debt to humanity.

Oscar Wilde

#11. Customers first, employees second, and shareholders third,

Jack Ma

#12. No book has worth by itself, but by the relation to what you have from many other books, it weighs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#13. There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.

W. Somerset Maugham

#14. I've gone pretty high at times so I think the yin yang of that is going pretty low.

Rick Springfield

#15. A zen master's life is one continuous mistake.

Dogen

#16. Hrithik is the go-to guy for queries related to diet. He is great with expressions and is funny in real life. I wonder why someone hasn't cast him in a comic role yet.

Farhan Akhtar

#17. A lot of people don't know that I love to love. To have a different kind of mask on me where people feel like I'm not a loving individual. I just love to love, I love everything and everybody, I'm about peace that's my spirit.

Snoop Dogg

#18. What is reasoned has nothing to do with what is reasonable.

Jose Bergamin