Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Watts

Just as the highest and the lowest notes are equally inaudible, so perhaps, is the greatest sense and the greatest nonsense equally unintelligible.

Alan Watts

Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.

Alan Watts

If my happiness at this moment consists largely in reviewing happy memories and expectations, I am but dimly aware of this present. I shall still be dimly aware of the present when the good things that I have been expecting come to pass. For I shall have formed a habit of looking behind and ahead, making it difficult for me to attend to the here and now. If, then , my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.

Alan Watts

Imagine a multidimensiona l spider's web in the early morning covered with dew drops. And every dew drop contains the reflection of all the other dew drops. And, in each reflected dew drop, the reflections of all the other dew drops in that reflection. And so ad infinitum. That is the Buddhist conception of the universe in an image.

Alan Ball

I'm a Buddhist, so one of my biggest beliefs is, 'Everything changes, don't take it personally.'

Alan Ball

I believe forgiveness is possible for everybody, for everything, but I'm a Buddhist.

Chogyam Trungpa

Anything that is created must sooner or later die. Enlightenment is permanent because we have not produced it; we have merely discovered it.

Chogyam Trungpa

What the warrior renounces is anything in his experience that is a barrier between himself and others. In other words, renunciation is making yourself more available, more gentle and open to others.

Chogyam Trungpa

The way of cowardice is to embed ourselves in a cocoon, in which we perpetuate our habitual patterns. When we are constantly recreating our basic patterns of habits and thought, we never have to leap into fresh air or onto fresh ground.

Chris Avellone

Women were the reason I became a monk - and, ah, the reason I switched back.

Ben Bradlee

You never monkey with the truth.

Mario Maddy

We've taken the monkey off our back. Now, Sandpoint is beatable.

Alan Garner

When a monkey nibbles on a weenis, it's funny in any language.

Eli Roth

I'll direct any movie starring a monkey or the Olsen Twins. Preferably both.

Susanna Moore

People will be able to survive, of course, without honeycreepers and monk seals. But if the wolf spider is in trouble, we are in trouble, too.

Tom Fleming

I thought it was the right decision. It's a monkey off our backs.

Satish Kumar

I was a restless child. I did not go to school. My mother used to go to the monks of the Jain religion, and I would go with her.

Jamee Juarez

(Hitting) is very contagious. It's kind of like monkey see, monkey do.

Markus Zusak

I am haunted by humans.

Edward G. Robinson

Nothing human is foreign to us

Ben Affleck

I'm human, just like anybody else.

Anton Chekhov

What must human beings be, to destroy what they can never create?

Charlotte Bronte

You are human and fallible.

Neil Harbisson

We need to get used to seeing humans with antennas sticking out of their heads.

Leroy Hood

What is unique about humans is their individuality.

Alan Dershowitz

Any human being has private thoughts.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

God is not free from human beings but for them.