Zenful Quotes & Sayings

However multilingual we may be as readers, we find ourselves faced with a fundamental, inescapable responsibility. We must understand that any book & especially a great one is a complex & highly personal exchange between its writer & its readers. None of us reads precisely the same book, even if the words are identical. Readers too, are part of the ongoing process of translation that begins in the author's mind. — Michael Cunningham

My life itself couldn't very conceivably be less Zenful than it is, and what little I've been able to apprehend - I pick that verb with care - of the Zen experience has been a by-result of following my own rather natural path of extreme Zenlessness. — J.D. Salinger

If all I hired were cake decorators, our cakes would just look like cakes that people decorate. We do astounding work at Charm City Cakes and to do that you need people who think in astounding ways. Artists just think in different ways. — Duff Goldman

The question about the end bursts out of the torment of history and the intolerableness of historical existence. — Jurgen Moltmann

It's not the long walk home that will change this heart,
But the welcome I receive at the restart — Mumford & Sons

There's no such thing as good money or bad money.There's just money. — Lucky Luciano

There was a point that I stopped crying. It's not just because I didn't feel pain anymore, not because I didn't feel sorrow. It was just to keep going. I mean, it just was to survive, to live. — Elizabeth Smart

To vault from the trenches of habitual thinking -- that is the birth of genius." Traussbery — Lori Stephens

I came to the conclusion that unless you are ruled properly, you cannot move forward. Everything else is second. Everything. — Mo Ibrahim

And finally that I tend to regard marriage as a promise: the error is not in not keeping it but in making it. — Gordon Sheppard

I speak as briefly as possible because too much harm has already been done with irresponsible words of bitterness and selfish political opportunism. I speak as simply as possible because the issue is too great to be obscured by eloquence. I speak simply and briefly in the hope that my words will be taken to heart. — Margaret Chase Smith

Since the tragedies, the Department of Homeland Security was established to prevent terrorist attacks within the United States, and most importantly, to share intelligence information among government agencies and departments. — Randy Forbes

Bennifer was so big it was as though two people had never been in love before, and they had discovered it. — Mindy Kaling