Ajahn Chah Quotes

There are people who are born and die and never once are aware of their breath going in and out of their body. That's how far away they live from themselves

Ajahn Chah

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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.

Yehuda Amichai
- Reason
- Poet
- Himself
My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.

Abraham A. Ribicoff
- Father
- Education
- Poor
If I don't write down a thought - or an image or a line of poetry - the instant it comes to mind, it vanishes, which explains why I have pens and notebooks in my pants and coat pockets, the car, the bicycle basket, on one or two desks in every room including bathrooms and the kitchen.

Floyd Skloot
- Mind
- Why
- Car
I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.

Samuel L. Jackson
- Hope
- Worry
- Scary
I think when you compete every week, when you play under pressure daily, you find your rituals to be 100 percent focused on what you're doing.

Rafael Nadal
- Daily
- Week
- Pressure
Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.

G. Gordon Liddy
- Home
- Strong
- Better