Verbitskaya Eleonora Quotes & Sayings

We say, "To hear the sound of one hand clapping." Usually the sound of clapping is made with two hands, and we think that clapping with one hand makes no sound at all. But actually, one hand is sound. Even though you do not hear it, there is sound. If you clap with two hands, you can hear the sound. But if sound did not already exist before you clapped, you could not make the sound. Before you make it there is sound. Because there is sound, you can make it, and you can hear it. Sound is everywhere. If you just practice it, there is sound. Do not try to listen to it. If you do not listen to it, the sound is all over. Because you try to hear it, sometimes there is sound, and sometimes there is no sound. Do you understand? Even though you do not do anything, you have the quality of zazen always. But if you try to find it, if you try to see the quality, you have no quality. — Shunryu Suzuki

Dream without fear, love without limits, and let your life sing its song. — Dilip Bathija

Love is a certain inborn suffering derived from the sight of and excessive meditation upon the beauty of the opposite sex, which causes each one to wish above all things the embraces of the other and by common desire to carry out all of love's precepts in the other's embrace. — Andreas Capellanus

Joe certainly didn't seem concerned with his own enlightenment, but he did seem more intelligent than the average muscle neck. Then he raised his arm, bent his head, and sniffed his pit.
Gabrielle looked at the plates in her hands. She should have used paper. — Rachel Gibson

Americans are not only a less homogenous population than we were when we were 3 million ex-colonists, but we're less educated. On top of that, we have constant misinformation and manipulation by media. — Gore Vidal

The story in that particular spot was an ancient history story, and we wanted to give it a historical feeling, which was why we used a historical calligraphy scroll come to life. — Jennifer Yuh Nelson

The interesting thing about humor is that in humor, you - in logic, something is A or not A. In humor, it's both A and not A. — Robert Mankoff

The artist Nature often achieves greatest effect when not working with a full palette. — Jim Perrin

I read fashion magazines all the time. It's fun, but I don't take it very seriously. — Becki Newton

I think money, power, fame changes people a lot. — Peter Criss

Man's desire to be remembered is colossal. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice. — Miguel De Cervantes

Australians don't have a preconceived notion of what things have to be ... we can go on a fantastic journey. — Yahoo Serious

You can see that a city is prosperous by the wealth of goods for sale in the market. Land too we call prosperous if it bears rich fruit. And so also the soul may be counted prosperous if it is full of good works of every kind. — Saint Basil

We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting — Kahlil Gibran