Bhikkhu Sujato
- Unblemished
The Buddha's chief disciples, Sariputta and Moggallana, use a simile of a tarnished bowl to illustrate the blemishes of the mind and conduct. They emphasize how the crucial thing is not so much whether there are blemishes, but whether we are aware of them.
Bhikkhu Sujato
- Fear and Dread
The Buddha explains the difficulties of living in the wilderness, and how they are overcome by purity of conduct and meditation. He recounts some of the fears and obstacles he faced during his own practice.
Anonymous
- Who you are
Maybe, instead of focusing on who you are, you should focus on who you want to be. So many of us concentrate on figuring out who we are or what made us who we are. Instead, we should put that effort into becoming the person we want and aspire to be.
Frank Underwood (House of Cards)
Money is the Mc-mansion in Sarasota that starts falling apart after 10 years. Power is the old stone building that stands for centuries. I cannot respect someone who doesn't see the difference.
NautiusMaximus
- Letters and words
I've moved around a lot. I grew up at 2213 Craig Lane, Onalaska, WI 54650. When I graduated High School, I moved to 502 Lacy St, Fairbanks, AK 99701. After I finished my bachelor degree, I moved to 2321 Cool Spring Rd, Adelphi, MD 20783 to attend grad school. Then I got a job and moved to 131 Marley Rd, Elkton, MD 21921. A better job opportunity came along, and I moved to 97 Summit Trace Rd, Langhorne, PA 19047.
May Sarton
- Now I Become Myself
As slowly as the ripening fruit - fertile, detached, and always spent, falls but does not exhaust the root - so all the poem is, can give, grows in me to become the song, made so and rooted by love. Now there is time and Time is young. O, in this single hour I live all of myself and do not move. I, the pursued, who madly ran, stand still, stand still, and stop the sun!
Vladimir Nabokov
- Letters To Vera
Yes, I need you, my fairy-tale. Because you are the only person I can talk with about the shade of a cloud, about the song of a thought - and about how, when I went out to work today and looked a tall sunflower in the face, it smiled at me with all of its seeds.
Sylvia Plath
- I Am Vertical
Compared with me, a tree is immortal and a flower-head not tall, but more startling, and I want the one's longevity and the other's daring. It is more natural to me, lying down. Then the sky and I are in open conversation, and I shall be useful when I lie down finally: then the trees may touch me for once, and the flowers have time for me.
Anonymous
- Fire Alarms
I hate fire alarms. I know that they have to be loud so you can hear them in another room or when you're sleeping but the noise they make is excessive. I have hearing loss and even to me they sound god awful. I believe if you played the sound next to a graveyard you'd wake the dead and cure the deaf.
Anonymous
- Tattoos
When you're young you think getting a tattoo will make you stand out and appear cool and unique. The reality is once you get one, no one really cares. Sure, you might get a few compliments every once in a while, but people treat you exactly the same. So next time you feel the urge to book an appointment for some permanent ink think about why you want one.
Anonymous
- Friendship
Don't worry about hanging around people who will make you appear popular if you don't truly enjoy them. Wait it out. Don't see them for months and see if they reach out to you first. If they make no effort, you were nothing more than an accessory to them. Instead focus on the people who value your friendship and go out of their way to make time for you. Keep the ones you can be weird around, they will never waste your time.
Ezra Pound
- In a Station of the Metro
The apparition of these faces in the crowd: Petals on a wet, black bough. This line diminutively stands alone - thus I must add these characters such that you may type what I believe to be Pound's most elegant verse.
Neal Stephenson
- Snow Crash - Chapter 1
The Deliverator belongs to an elite order, a hallowed subcategory. He's got esprit up to here. Right now, he is preparing to carry out his third mission of the night. His uniform is black as activated charcoal, filtering the very light out of the air. A bullet will bounce off its arachnofiber weave like a wren hitting a patio door, but excess perspiration wafts through it like a breeze through a freshly napalmed forest.
Bhikkhu Sujato
- Heirs in the Teaching
Some of the Buddha's students inherit from him only material profits and fame. But his true inheritance is the spiritual path, the way of contentment. Venerable Sariputta explains how by following the Buddha's example we can experience the fruits of the path.
Bhikkhu Sujato
- All the Defilements
The diverse problems of the spiritual journey demand a diverse range of responses. Rather than applying the same solution to every problem, the Buddha outlines seven methods of dealing with defilements, each of which works in certain cases.
Bhikkhu Sujato
- The Root of All Things
The Buddha examines how the notion of a permanent self emerges from the process of perception. A wide range of phenomena are considered, embracing both naturalistic and cosmological dimensions. An unawakened person interprets experience in terms of a self, while those more advanced have the same experiences without attachment.
Robin Williams.
- Dead Poet Society.
There is that line in Dead Poets Society, when Robbin Williams tells us of course science, medicine, law, engineering, business, and mathematics are noble pursuits, and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, love, romance, and art; these are the things that we stay alive for.
Tay chee siong
- All test
Red and blue and green and yellow and orange and purple and black and white and brown and gold and rainbow and sliver and iron and metal and grey and metallic and amber.
Lily King - Writers and Lovers
All problems with writing and performing come from fear. Fear of exposure, fear of weakness, fear of lack of talent, fear of looking like a fool for trying, for even thinking you could write in the first place. It's all fear.
Abraham Lincoln
- internet quotes
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