Thich Haht Nahn Quotes & Sayings

Always remember ... Perfection is not attainable, but if you chase perfection you can catch excellence and beyond. Be fearless ... — Ziad K. Abdelnour

I was ordered to go for flowers, that my mistress's house might be decorated for an evening party. I spent the day gathering flowers and weaving them into festoons, while the dead body of my father was lying within a mile of me. What cared my owners for that? he was merely a piece of property. Moreover, they thought he had spoiled his children, by teaching them to feel that they were human beings. This was blasphemous doctrine for a slave to teach; presumptuous in him, and dangerous to the masters. — Harriet Ann Jacobs

Don't entertain others at the expense of your reputation. — Bohdi Sanders

The next morning I learned why our room was called the Far East Suite. It was located in the corner of the Lost Arms that was the farthest east, and so the very first rays of the sunlight came through the shutters and poked me in the eye. "Go play," I told the sunlight. "I'll catch up with you later." The sunlight insisted that I wake up right this very minute, so I sat up in bed and went into the bathroom to wash my face and change my clothes. — Lemony Snicket

I used to figure that Santa was the zombie. Not like modern zombies, more like the voodoo ones. The elves resurrect this long dead saint to do their festive bidding every year because they were magically restricted to the North Pole. It's entirely possibly my mom let me watch too many horror movies. — Thomm Quackenbush

The meaning of your communication is the response you get. — Gregory Bateson

Our language places us in a cultural continuum, linking us to the past, and showing our meanings also to future fellow-speakers. — Nicholas Ostler

In a world where so much that is wild and free has been lost to us, we must leave these beautiful animals free to swim as they will and must. They do us no harm and wish us none and we should let them alone. — Ric O'Barry

A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day. — Jim Bishop

I always remind people from outside our state that there's plenty of room for all Alaska's animals - right next to the mashed potatoes. — Sarah Palin

God breathes through us so completely ... So gently we hardly feel it ... yet it is our everything. — John Coltrane

I stopped living according to my core values. I knew what I was doing was wrong but thought only about myself and thought I could get away with whatever I wanted to. — Tiger Woods