Zenkei Shibayama Quotes

#1. Never lend money to a friend. It's dangerous. It could damage his memory.

Sam Levenson

#2. A flower does not think of competing to the flower next to it. It just blooms.

Zenkei Shibayama

#3. Oh, we had a lot of sex back then in Montreal; it wasn't just me. Blame it on the cold. The roses in everyone's cheeks made them seem way more appealing than they actually were. We confused the indoors with intimacy and electric heating with connection.

Heather O'Neill

#4. Silently a flower blooms,
In silence it falls away;
Yet here now, at this moment, at this place,
The world of the flower, the whole of
the world is blooming.
This is the talk of the flower, the truth
of the blossom;
The glory of eternal life is fully shining here.

Zenkei Shibayama

#5. Very many maintain that all we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown.

William Harvey

#6. The Commonwealth is one of three belts I want to win before going for a world title.

Billy Joe Saunders

#7. Without giving specific names, most of the significant American banks, the larger banks, are bankrupt, totally bankrupt,

Jim Rogers

#8. To begin again, every failure provides experience and opens the door of opportunity.

Debasish Mridha

#9. Zen is the way of complete self-realization; a living human being who follows the way of Zen can attain satori and then live a new life as a Buddha.

Zenkei Shibayama

#10. She looked down at her sketch pad. She'd been drawing a rabbit. She decided to give him unpleasant teeth. Vicious little bunny. Excellent.

Julia Quinn

#11. He who neither drinks, nor smokes, nor dances, he who preaches & even occasionally practice piety, temperance and celibacy, is generally a saint, or a mahatma or more likely a humbug but he certainly won't make a leader or for that matter a good soldier

Sam Manekshaw

#12. When you overcome a profound loss, or there's some catalyst in your life that shifts everything, if you're able to take it in stride and heal, it can make for much more three-dimensional and empathetic people.

Rose McIver

#13. True peace of mind can be obtained only when one is personally awakened to the stark-naked fact that every effort is ultimately in vain.

Zenkei Shibayama