Sekiso Quotes & Sayings

He was far more comfortable reading about the lives and ideas of others than describing his own. — Kate Morton

They were American people and there was a kind of dirty, compelling romance about them whenever they were in groups - never — Stephen King

The beauty of reality-based art - art underwritten by reality hunger - is that it's perfectly situated between life itself and (unattainable) "life as art". — David Shields

Usually it is through loss that things come to be of value. — Steven Redhead

The wise Sekiso (Shih-shuang) said, 'Stop all your hankerings; let the mildew grow on your lips; make yourself like unto a perfect piece of immaculate silk; let your one thought be eternity; let yourself be like the dead ashes, cold and lifeless; again let yourself be like an old censer in a deserted village shrine! — D.T. Suzuki

I've started to look at life differently. When you're thanking God for every little you - every meal, every time you wake up, every time you take a sip of water - you can't help but be more thankful for life itself, for the unlikely and miraculous fact that you exist at all. — A. J. Jacobs

I've never been afraid to make a polite ask to someone. — Gerald Chertavian

He had enough experience in the business of prayer to recognize an answer when it showed up, though, however unwelcome. — Diana Gabaldon

So often the pain of our life is no more than a reminder to take our hand off the stove. — Richard Paul Evans

The ideal is a synthesis of the different cultures that have come to stay in India, that have influenced Indian life, and that, in their turn, have themselves been influenced by the spirit of the soil. — Mahatma Gandhi

There is no long-range effective teaching of the Bible that is not accompanied by long hours of ongoing study of the Bible. — D. A. Carson