Rebel Buddha Quotes & Sayings

My message is that I want to reach the people - the people who work each and every day. — Janelle Monae

I used to have an imaginary friend named Michael. — Niall Horan

Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche has a remarkable ability to present the wisdom of the Buddha's teachings in a manner that is as fresh and accessible as it is profound. With Rebel Buddha, he goes straight to the core of the spiritual path, showing how the Buddha's liberating insights transcend race, religion, and culture. This book is sure to provoke, inspire, and move us one step closer to creating a thoroughly modern approach to spirituality. — Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

I want to always find new ways of reinventing myself. — Nicolas Cage

As long as men are men, a poor society cannot be too poor to find a right order of life, nor a rich society too rich to have need to seek it. — R. H. Tawney

When you carry yesterday's thinking into today, you program tomorrow to be like yesterday. — Marianne Williamson

But in practice master plans fail - because they create totalitarian order, not organic order. They are too rigid; they cannot easily adapt to the natural and unpredictable changes that inevitably arise in the life of a community. — Christopher Alexander

Drowsing, they take the noble attitude of a great sphinx, who, in a desert land, sleeps always, dreaming dreams that have no end. — Charles Baudelaire

That is the essence and mission of 'rebel buddha': to free us from the illusions we create by ourselves, about ourselves, and from those that masquerade as reality in our cultural and religious institutions. — Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

Being on the ballot is a lot different than getting in. — Orel Hershiser

For quiet times disappear listen to the ocean — Tupac Shakur

Stay smart and run. Sounds like a sweet life. — James Dashner

I wasn't sent here to find angels! I wasn't sent here to dream of them. I wasn't sent here to hear them sing! I was sent here to be alive. To breathe and sweat and thirst and sometimes cry. — Anne Rice

And just about the time I feel like screaming and finding me a wall to punch right through, I look up and I just can't help smiling, it's you. — Bob Seger

I'd met some awfully tough gals in my life, and I find them compelling, if I don't have to socialize with them too much. — Daniel Woodrell