Wumen Gate Quotes & Sayings

My fans are pretty spot-on with their gifts. This girl that was super into baking had made this entire batch of cookies - there were one with a dandelion on it, one with a trailer, and some had my face. — Kacey Musgraves

The Great Way has no gate; / there are a thousand paths to it. / If you pass through the barrier, / you walk the universe alone. — Wumen Huikai

He that plays the king shall be welcome- his Majesty shall
have tribute of me; the adventurous knight shall use his foil and
target; the lover shall not sigh gratis; the humorous man shall
end his part in peace; the clown shall make those laugh whose
lungs are tickle o' th' sere; and the lady shall say her mind
freely, or the blank verse shall halt fort. — William Shakespeare

People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness. — John Wanamaker

To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries. — Alberto Manguel

Anybody who succeeds is helping people. The secret to success is find a need and fill it; find a hurt and heal it; find a problem and solve it. — Robert H. Schuller

You are surprised that the world is losing its grip, that the world is grown old? Think of a man: he is born, he grows up, he becomes old. Old age has its many complaints: coughing, shaking, failing eyesight, anxious, terribly tired. A man grows old; he is full of complaints. The world is old; it is full of pressing tribulations. . . . Do not hold onto the old man, the world; do not refuse to regain your youth in Christ, who says to you, 'The world is passing away, the world is losing its grip, the world is short of breath. Do not fear. Thy youth shall be renewed as an eagle — Augustine Of Hippo

Now, I appeal to the consciences of those who persecute, wound, torture, and kill other men on the excuse of 'religion', whether they do this in a spirit of friendship and kindness. — John Locke

I grew up in New York and have lived here all my life. I think it's the best city in the world and can write about it with gusto and fervor and passion. — M.J. Rose

The flood of love will fill all the containers to the fullest, but some containers will be larger than others. — Peter Kreeft

Every day Zuigan used to call out to himself, "Master!" and then he answered himself, "Yes, Sir!" And he added, "Awake, Awake!" and then answered, "Yes, Sir! Yes, Sir!"
"From now onwards, do not be deceived by others!" "No, Sir! I will not, Sir!"

— Wumen Huikai

I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded on my observation of the world, not on anything so trivial and irrelevant as personal history. — A.E. Housman

Psychotherapy may begin with the primitive, but it must end with the divine, for both are integral factors in the human mind. — Dion Fortune

In our civilization, men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they might be considered only women. — Theodor Reik

The proper role of the judiciary is one of interpreting and applying the law, not making it. — Sandra Day O'Connor

People do not die from suicide. They die from sadness. — Anonymous

When the fishbowl gets too small, it's time to pack up and leave and jump into the lake or ocean. — Travie McCoy