Shunryu Suzuki Famous Quotes



"Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer."

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities. In the expert's mind there are few.

"When you understand one thing through and through, you understand everything."


Shunryu Suzuki Quotations






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"For target shooting, that's okay. Get a license and go to the range. For defense of the home, that's why we have police departments."
James Brady

The welfare of the people is the ultimate law.
Cicero

Happy Golf requires goofy pants and a fat ass. You should talk to my neighbor the accountant. Probably a great golfer. Huge ass.
Happy Gilmore

"To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull facilities can comprehend only in the most primitive forms--this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of true religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only, I belong to the ranks of the devoutly religious men."
Albert Einstein

Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
Benjamin Cardozo

"Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism."
Carl Gustav Jung

"Many could forgo heavy meals, a full wardrobe, a fine house, et cetera it is the ego they cannot forgo."
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

"I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough."
M C Escher

"No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal."
Marilyn Ferguson

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
William H Borah