As soon as you raise a thought and begin to form an idea of it, you ruin the reality itself, because you then attach yourself to form.

Leave your front door and your back door open. Allow your thoughts to come and go. Just don't serve them tea.

When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.

Unless we are willing to encourage our children to reconnect with and appreciate the natural world, we can't expect them to help protect and care for it.

When we start to feel anxious or depressed, instead of asking, "What do I need to get to be happy?" The question becomes, "What am I doing to disturb the inner peace that I already have?"

Nothing outside yourself can cause any trouble. You yourself make the waves in your mind. If you leave your mind as it is, it will become calm. This mind is called big mind.

Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.

The truth of Zen, just a little bit of it, is what turns one's humdrum life, a life of monotonous, uninspiring commonplaceness, into one of art, full of genuine inner creativity.

If you can just appreciate each thing, one by one, then you will have pure gratitude. Even though you observe just one flower, that one flower includes everything

The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet.

Wherever you go you will find your teacher, as long as you have the eyes to see and the ears to hear.

When she can't bring me to heal with scolding, she bends me to shape with guilt.

For some people themselves and their family is only human But Other all are Toy For play and Broke After game But The truth they do not know that they just Own Human Body Nothing More

Everyone talks about age, but it's not about age. It's about work ethic. Winning never gets old.

I like a lot of classic movies, like, for example, 'Citizen Kane', James Dean movies, etc, etc.

If it's important do it everyday.

Charity, till then, had been conscious only of a vague self-disgust and a frightening physical distress; now, of a sudden, there came to her the grave surprise of motherhood.

Science is a set of rules to keep us from telling lies to each other. All scientists really have is a reputation for telling the truth.

A legend, Kludd, is a story that you begin to feel in your gizzard and then over time it becomes true in your heart. And perhaps makes you become a better owl.

Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its own ways.

And no practical definition of freedom would be complete without the freedom to take the consequences. Indeed, it is the freedom upon which all the others are based.