Oryoki Quotes & Sayings

A day out-of- doors, someone I loved to talk with, a good book and some simple food and music - that would be rest.
- Eleanor Roosevelt — Eleanor Roosevelt

Serious and intense people, they drain you. But someone who's an idiot, like myself, they're fun. You either hate me or you love me. — Pauly Shore

I have spent a lot of time studying the issue of relationships, how I grew up, my parents' influence on me. I've talked to a therapist,; I've looked inward spiritually at myself, and what it seems to come down to is that I'm a Sagittarius. Please don't make me reveal more than that. It's tough enough as it is. — Garry Shandling

fear that if I'm dependent on anything or anyone I can't control my life. — Robert B. Parker

We don't have to be harsh with ourselves when we think, sitting here, that our meditation or our oryoki or the way we are in the world is in the category of worst horse. — Pema Chodron

Most turkeys taste better the day after, my mother's tasted better the day before. — Rita Rudner

To change is to be vulnerable. And to be vulnerable is to be alive. — Alexis De Veaux

The only person for whom the house was in any way special was Arthur Dent, and that was only because it happened to be the one he lived in. — Douglas Adams

Justice is in subjects as well as in rulers. — Thomas Aquinas

Wild creatures' eyes, the colonel said,
Are innocent and fathomless
And when I look at them I see
That they are not aware of me
And oh I find and oh I bless
A comfort in this emptiness
They only see me when they want
To pounce upon me at the hunt;
But in the tame variety
There couches an anxiety
As if they yearned, yet knew not what
They yearned for, nor they yearned for not.
And so my dog would look at me
And it was pitiful to see
Such love and such dependency.
The human heart is not at ease
With animals that look like these. — Stevie Smith