Furnia Diccionario Quotes & Sayings

I have always had this failing - that I cannot explain myself, as I have said, except at the cost of many words. — Teresa Of Avila

This acquiring of a new viewpoint in Zen is called *satori* (*wu* in Chinese) and its verb form is *satoru*. Without it there is no Zen, for the life of Zen begins with the "opening of *satori*". *Satori* may be defined as intuitive looking-into, in contradistinction to intellectual and logical understanding. Whatever the definition, *satori* means the unfolding of a new world hitherto unperceived in the confusion of the dualistic mind. — D.T. Suzuki

The compassionate person does not require other people to be stupid, in order to be intelligent. Their intelligence is for everyone, so as to have a world in which there is less ignorance. (118) — Jean-Yves Leloup

I'm very against interviewers who do not have time to read the work, who accept jobs knowing that they don't have time to do the preparation. — Michael Silverblatt

The not-doing spoke volumes. — Charles M. Blow

Groceries, baby, listen to your friend Richard. You go set your lily-white ass down in that meditation cave every day for the next three months and I promise you this
you're gonna start seeing some stuff that's so damn beautiful it'll make you wanna throw rocks at the Taj Mahal. — Elizabeth Gilbert

It is difficult to be king when the gods are changing. — James A. Michener

The writing of history reflects the interests, predilections, and even prejudices of a given generation. — John Hope Franklin

Cats can be cooperative when something feels good, which, to a cat, is the way everything is supposed to feel as much of the time as possible. — Roger Caras

When I sit down in front of a Windows machine, I can't write; when I sit down in front of my Mac, I can write. So I only use Macs. — Michael Crichton

If we could understand the full significance of a woman's hat we could prophesy her clothes for the next year, the interior decoration of the next two years, the architecture of the next ten years, and we would have a fairly accurate notion of the pressures, political, economic and religious that go to make the shape of an age. — James Laver

I have always wanted to become a saint. Unfortunately, when I have compared myself with the saints, I have always found that there is the same difference between the saints and me as there is between a mountain whose summit is lost in the clouds and a humble grain of sand trodden underfoot by passers-by. — Therese Of Lisieux