D. T. Suzuki Quotes
Not to be bound by rules, but to be creating one's own rules-this is the kind of life which Zen is trying to have us live.
D. T. Suzuki
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As far as control and stuff is concerned, I never had any more in my life than for that All-Star game in 1934.
Carl Hubbell
I over-scrutinize anyone new entering my life.
Felice Picano
If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.
Jack Canfield
I think that people that are not sensitive, who seem to bang through life, do survive, but I don't think they get the really soaring feelings that people who are more artistically bent can get.
Fannie Flagg
I've been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night.
Laura Marling
We're really going after truly creating sustainability of a disease-free state, creating a complete system for managing cancer patients for life, so that you can manage from onset of disease all the way through.
Patrick Soon-Shiong
The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Bad Girl of West Seattle High, I tried to live up to it.
Frances Farmer
Making money is marvelous, and I love doing it, and I do it reasonably well, but it doesn't have the gripping vitality that you have when you deal with the happiness of human life and with human deprivation.
Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
Mainly, I hope to inspire honesty. We live in a space where so much can be manipulated, and so much is expected to be manipulated - curated, contrived, edited. I think that's a real detriment to self expression and happiness in a lot of ways. In my mind, honesty and vulnerability is the way forward.
K. Flay
I think if we wish to live in any kind of a moral universe, we must hold the perpetrators of violence responsible for the violence they perpetrate. It's very simple. The criminal is responsible for the crime.
Salman Rushdie
I suppose I flee to life. I'm most interested when conversations become difficult.
Tamsin Greig
You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not.
Octavia Spencer
I would like, before I die, to see the changes I've always fought for being made. If not, my life will have been worth nothing.
Brigitte Bardot
Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.
Marian Wright Edelman
There are thousands of good-looking women out there. Longevity for a heroine doesn't come only with good looks: talent matters.
Samantha Ruth Prabhu
I began tailoring my books to cater to one or another universe of readers. I found it incredibly boring; and frankly, it felt stultifying. I'd previously been in advertising. I felt if I was going to create something to fit a specific market, I might as well have stayed with advertising.
M. J. Rose
We had to go all through the night thinking that our baby was dead. When God showed him to us, he wasn't dead, he was sucking his thumb. God had him safe and sound. He is a miracle. He is so healthy, so perfect, and God has really, really blessed us.
Barbara Mandrell
Not to be bound by rules, but to be creating one's own rules-this is the kind of life which Zen is trying to have us live.
D. T. Suzuki
