Mazu Daoyi Quotes & Sayings

I like to write scenes in the middle of the night. We could change every word of 'Family Ties' between Monday and Friday. — Gary David Goldberg

I am the captain of my pain. — Nick Cave

Once I have impounded love and towed it into the confine of words, I have lost it altogether. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

It was then that I began to write. Writing helps when you can't talk to your friends; it wasn't that my friends were untrustworthy, it's just that I would never discuss something that was hardly real as though it were really real. Often people do this, forcing friends into authenticating an imaginary life. — Hilary Thayer Hamann

A gentleman, my Lord Father, is such whether he is on earth or on the treetops — Italo Calvino

We city dwellers, we residents of Los Angeles and the surrounding areas, are for the most part urbanized to some extent. We know deadlines, start times and traffic. — Henry Rollins

Disappointment is the gap that exists between expectation and reality. — John C. Maxwell

The best one can hope for is a government favorable to certain claims and demands from the Left. — Gilles Deleuze

Only the individual who has come to terms with his self can have a dispassionate attitude toward the world. — Eric Hoffer

There is no respect for others without humility in one's self. — Henri Frederic Amiel

I've lived a lot since I was 16, so I've got more things to write about. I've started playing around the world and met some great people along the way who've taught me lots of things. — Gin Wigmore

All my weak days have a common cause - I have neglected communion with God through my neglect of the Scriptures & prayer. When will I learn? — Paul Washer

I gaze into your eyes
Lost in time, lost in place.
I'm lifted by the smile
Of your angelic face.
My gentle fingers brush
Your tender, waiting skin.
You're so near, I close my
Eyes and breathe you in.
You're pulsing through my veins;
I wallow in the stream.
I linger in the feeling,
Suspended in a dream. — Madison Parker

Why does a man destroy himself or what destroys him? I would have to judge that suicide is mostly the tool of the thinking man. The right to suicide should be the same as the right to love. — Charles Bukowski