Nitipong Selanons Birthday Quotes & Sayings

Zen is not a particular state but the normal state: silent, peaceful, unagitated. In Zazen neither intention, analysis, specific effort nor imagination take place. It's enough just to be without hypocrisy, dogmatism, arrogance - embracing all opposites. — Taisen Deshimaru

I felt in my bones; first, that this world does not explain itself. It may be a miracle with a supernatural explanation; it may be a conjuring trick, with a natural explanation. But the explanation of the conjuring trick, if it is to satisfy me, will have to be better than the natural explanations I have heard. The thing is magic, true or false. Second, I came to feel as if magic must have a meaning, and meaning must have some one to mean it. There was something personal in the world, as in a work of art; whatever it meant it meant violently. Third, I thought this
purpose beautiful in its old design, in spite of its defects, such as dragons. — G.K. Chesterton

Bloodshed begets bloodshed. Hatred begits hatred. — Hiromu Arakawa

To invent something is to find it in what previously exists. — Brian Arthur

While I have no empirical evidence to back this up, I bet that the number of homosexual people per thousand has not fluctuated all that much over the centuries. I do not believe the dented wisdom my father used to extol, that homosexuality was a sure sign of a civilization in decline. — Henry Rollins

Let us take arms against this sea of stupidities - — Ezra Pound

I can lose my temper from time to time, but I try not to lose it on the pitch because it can't help. — Andrew Flintoff

There is nothing so confining as the prisons of our own perceptions. — William Shakespeare

If you can touch your shadow - within form - and do something out of your ordinary pattern, a great deal of energy will flow from it. — Robert A. Johnson

The bike struggled showing signs it was feeling the strain especially in the bodywork which we constantly had to fix with Alberto's favored spare part - wire. — Ernesto Che Guevara

If you're going to tell stuff, you might as well tell the real stuff. — Ruth Reichl

The mountains are fountains not only of rivers and fertile soil, but of men. — John Muir

The holy art of "giving for Jesus' sake" ought to be much more strongly developed among us Christians. Never forget that all state relief for the poor is a blot on the honor of your savior. The fact that the government needs a safety net to catch those who would slip between the cracks of our economic system is evidence that I have failed to do God's work. The government cannot take the place of Christian charity. A loving embrace isn't given with food stamps. The care of a community isn't provided with government housing. The face of our Creator can't be seen on a welfare voucher. What the poor need is not another government program; what they need is for Christians like me to honor our savior. — Abraham Kuyper

Nevertheless, the mode, the justification, and all the games involved in this war were dishonest. — Dario Fo

I think we're the only jokeless show on television. I mean really, we have no setups and no punch lines. It's not a joke show. There are funny lines and funny moments but again the comedy is born of the human experience and awkward pauses are a great part of what it is to be human. — Rainn Wilson