Zoffingers Quotes & Sayings

I divined and chose a distant place to dwell
T'ien-t'ai; what more is there to say?

Monkeys cry where valley mists are cold,
My grass gate blends with the color of the crags,
I pick leaves to thatch a hut among the pines,
Scoop out a pond and lead a runnel from the spring.

By now I am used to doing without the world,
Picking ferns, I pass the years that are left.
The trail to Cold Mountain is faint
the banks of Cold Stream are a jungle

birds constantly chatter away
I hear no sound of people
gusts of wind lash my face

flurries of snow bury my body
day after day, no sun
year after year no spring. — Hanshan

The basic idea of karma is not punishment. Karma presents the opportunity for development; to make use of opportunities that were not taken advantage of, to fill in gaps of ignorance, to enlarge understanding through experience, to do what should be done. — Seth

War makes rattling good history. — Thomas Hardy

I have heard the summer dust crying to be born. — Robinson Jeffers

If there was a God, the world seemed exactly the way it would be if there wasn't one. — Joe Abercrombie

If i opened the door would he be there? would he smile at me and show his dimples? Would his cheeks be scruffy because he needed a shave? Would he hug me? all i've wanted all these monthes was for him to be alive.
But i'd seen him on the floor. i'd seen him in the coffin. And you can feel it when someone has died, you can feel that his soul is gone, just gone, the emptiness of his body. — Carrie Jones

The most exciting breakthrough of the twenty-first century will occur not because of technology, but because of an expanding concept of what it means to be human," said the futurist John Naisbitt. — Keith Ferrazzi

I am a verb, not a noun. — Tirza Schaefer

It is not Justice the servant of men, but accident, hazard, Fortune-the ally of patient Time-that holds an even and scrupulous balance. — Joseph Conrad

Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain. — Robert A. Heinlein

The ground of science was littered with the corpses of dead unified theories. — Freeman Dyson

I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth. — Otto Von Bismarck