IRC-Galleria

"The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."

"How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 6:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so?"

"It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up, because by that time I was too famous."

“Boredom: the desire for desires.”

“There is no significant idea which cannot be explained to an intelligent twelve year old in fifteen minutes.”

“If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”

“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”

“Every heart has its own skeletons.”

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

"We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us."

"Never chase love, affection or attention, if it isn't given freely it isn't worth having."

"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying."

"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough."

"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."

"I am a part of all that I have met."

"There's more to the truth than just the facts."

"The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer."

"Don't miss the donut by looking through the hole."

"You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep."

"Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death."

"We must remember that nothing in this world really belongs to us. At best, we are merely borrowers."

"It is easy to stand a pain, but difficult to stand an itch."

"You exist in time, but you belong to eternity."

"Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects."

"The unreal is more powerful than the real.... Because it's only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die."

"Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light?"

"Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt."

"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought."

"A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions."

"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."

"Stars you see at night have been dead longer than we've been alive... Knowing this are you willing to simply accept a mundane existence?"

(To be exact, for the most part, this is in fact not true, most of the stars you see in the night sky are within a few thousand light years from earth and are still very much alive, but I still appreciate the idea of this quote.)

"Judging someone doesn't define who they are. It defines who YOU are."

"I do not think the measure of a civilization is how tall its buildings of concrete are, but rather how well its people have learned to relate to their environment and fellow man."

"Ships are safe within the harbor, but is that what ships are for?"

"If you can't improve on silence, don't speak."

"First thought, best thought."

"Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional."

"He who seeds a thought, harvests a destiny."

"When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live."

"An angry man catches no fish"

"Water and words... Easy to pour impossible to recover."

"We cannot see our reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see."

"To know the road ahead, ask those coming back."

"Although gold dust is precious, when it gets in your eyes, it obstructs your vision."

"The tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood."

"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."

"We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want."

"All day long some persons invoke Buddhas and read sutras... Ideally, you do not need to read sutras or invoke buddhas."

"Above speech and silence there is a way out."

"Life is like stepping onto a boat that is about to sail out to sea and sink."

"Nothing is exactly as it seems, nor is it otherwise."

"I hear, I forget. I see, I remember. I do, I understand."

"Ignore the brilliance of your intellect and return to the unconscious
vastness of unknowing."

"A student of Zen should learn how to read the love letters sent by the snow, the wind and the rain."

"The foolish reject what they see, not what they think. The wise reject what they think, not what they see."

"Ordinary men hate solitude. But the Master makes use of it, embracing his aloneness, realizing he is one with the whole universe."

"Moment after moment, everyone comes out from nothingness. This is the true joy of life."

"To give your sheep or cow a large spacious meadow is the way to control him."

"People are scared to empty their minds fearing that they will be engulfed by the void. What they don't realize is that their own mind is the void."

"When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish."

"Do you have the patience to wait till your mind settles and the water is clear? Can you remain unmoving till the right action arises by itself."