Cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words, and following after speech.

Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things.

The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.

If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?

Life and death are of supreme importance. Time swiftly passes by and opportunity is lost. Each of us should strive to awaken. Awaken. Take heed, do not squander your life.

But do not ask me where I am going, As I travel in this limitless world, Where every step I take is my home.

A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.

Students, when you want to say something, think about it three times before you say it. Speak only if your words will benefit yourselves and others. Do not speak if it brings no benefit.

That you carry yourself forward and experience the myriad things is delusion. That the myriad things come forward and experience themselves is awakening

Those who seek the easy way do not seek the true way.

To study Buddhism is to study ourselves. To study ourselves is to forget ourselves.

I'd go to the end of the world for my husband. Of course, if he'd just stop and ask directions, I wouldn't have to.

I’d always enjoyed life, and I knew I would again. But I was going to have to slog through a lot of bad patches to get there

Every morning brings thousands of opportunities

If you hurt Muse, I will hunt you down, use every rusted weapon I own, cut off your precious parts and feed them to the hellhounds." Ryder

A diner having a row with a waiter in a swanky restaurant chills the blood in a way that a quarrel over a pizza order elsewhere would never do. Compassion is rarely the custom of the privileged.

The coffin, it shall protect me, though Death himself lies in it

Sanity, it would seem, was a dangerously contagious disease.

The silence of a wise man is always meaningful.

You can stick a BMW badge on a dead cat - and people would still buy it.

American corporations hate to give away money.