S. N. Goenka Quotes

One learns the art of dying by learning the art of living: how to become master of the present moment.

S. N. Goenka

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You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

Napoleon Bonaparte
- Art
- War
- Enemy
If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
- Words
- Faith
- End
The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.

J. G. Ballard
- People
- Present
- Film
I think that's what art is about: to provoke you. It helps me make sense of a senseless universe because I become the god of the story. I create it, and I see it in all its lineaments in my own way and can control it – in a world in which everything else is out of control.

T. C. Boyle
- World
- God
- Art
You can actually be bored stiff while you're dying.

Felix Dennis
- You
- Dying
- Bored
You sit at your computer for hours, then slave away at your job that you may or may not like. You don't know how to explain to them that the time when you feel alive or present is when you are writing.

Karen Bender
- Time
- Writing
- May