Hakuin Zenji Quotes & Sayings

It took me some time to learn that although every one secretly cherishes the ambition to be 'put in a book,' no one is ever satisfied with anything save incense, butter, and honey, unrelieved by salt or spice. — Gertrude Atherton

We should conceive of poetry worthily, and more highly than it has been the custom to conceive of it. We should conceive of it as capable of higher uses, and called to higher destinies, than those which in general men have assigned to it hitherto. More and more mankind will discover that we have to turn to poetry to interpret life for us, to console us, to sustain us. — Matthew Arnold

He took a strand of hair that had fallen loose from her chignon between his fingers. The gesture shocked her, not because his self-control seemed to have snapped, but the exact opposite - it felt like a deliberate choice on his part. — Sherry Thomas

If you understand this basic concept, it becomes clear that every spending decision is a spiritual decision. Waste, for example, is not a squandering of our resources. It is a poor use of His. — James C. Dobson

Time doesn't flow at the same rate for everyone. You can change time. You can slow it down, you can speed it up, — Jim Al-Khalili

Science fiction is for real, space opera is for fun. — Brian W. Aldiss

Here in Prague they say that although the traffic police are communists the drivers are fascists, which would be all right if it were not that the pedestrians are anarchists. — Len Deighton

My father was not scientific, and I was left to struggle with a child's blindness, added to a student's thirst for knowledge. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Death has this much to be said for it: You don't have to get out of bed for it. Wherever you happen to be They bring it to you - free. - Kingsley Amis — Christopher Hitchens

In a life full of work, family, civic responsibilities, commutes and errands, your training runs offer fertile opportunity to lean inward and listen. — Gina Greenlee

I am always sorry for the Puritan, for he guided his life against desire and against nature. He found what he thought was comfort, for he believed the spirit's safety was in negation, but he has never given the world one minute's joy or produced one symbol of the beautiful order of nature. He sought peace in bondage and his spirit became a prisoner. — Robert Henri