Arrows Quotes

• Every aspect of the novel is - or should be - an arrow pointed towards its ultimate meaning, or a multiplicity of possible meanings. But I also value the readers' autonomy, their right to both read and misread.

  

  C.E. Morgan
  • Value
  • Should
  • Aspect

• The right art is purposeless, aimless! The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal, the less you will succeed in the one and the further the other will recede.

  

  D. T. Suzuki
  • Art
  • Arrows
  • Archery

• As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

  

  Helen Keller
  • World
  • Hands
  • Feathers

• Hatha Yoga teaches us to use the body as the bow, asana as the arrow, and the soul the target.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Soul
  • Yoga
  • Arrows

• Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Master
  • Wood
  • Irrigators

• The good shine from afar Like the snowy Himalayas. The bad don't appear Even when near, Like arrows shot into the night.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Night
  • Arrows
  • Himalayas

• As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Minds
  • Archers
  • Irrigators

• Pure essence, and pure matter, and the two joined into one were shot forth without flaw, like three bright arrows from a three-string bow.

  

  Dante Alighieri
  • Joined
  • Arrows
  • Flaw

• If you use a wolf to hunt a wolf, keep two arrows near to hand.

  

  Elaine Cunningham
  • Hand
  • Hunt
  • Arrows

• Be winged arrows aiming at fulfillment and goal.

  

  Paul Klee
  • Goal
  • Arrows

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