Cherishable Moments Quotes & Sayings

She had got beyond despair. — Michael McDowell

In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against Nature not to go out, and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth. — John Milton

Once Seung Sahn Soen-sa and a student of his attended a talk at a Zen center in California. The Dharma teacher spoke about Bodhidharma. After the talk, someone asked him "What's the difference between Bodhidharma's sitting in Sorim for nine years and your sitting here now?"
The Dharma teacher said, "About five thousand miles."
The questioner said, "Is that all?"
The Dharma teacher said, "Give or take a few miles."
Later on, Soen-sa asked his student, "What do you think of these answers?"
"Not bad, not good. But the dog runs after the bone."
"How would you answer?"
"I'd say, 'Why do you make a difference?' "
Soen-sa said, "Not bad. Now you ask me."
"What's the difference between Bodhidharma's sitting in Sorim for nine years and your sitting here now?"
"Don't you know?"
"I'm listening."
"Bodhidharma sat in Sorim for nine years. I am sitting here now."
The student smiled. — Seung Sahn

Her thoughts are full of other things just now; and people have such different ways of showing feeling: some by silence, some by words. — Elizabeth Gaskell

If you like my renditions of faerie-folk, then you will most certainly like Brian Froud's work. — Tony DiTerlizzi

His letter was like the shock produced by a cold bath. — Duff Green

Couples fight, but it's how you make up that counts. — Marquita Valentine

Put no faith in salvation through the political order. — Saint Augustine