19 Monks Quotes for You to Enjoy

We know what the birth of a revolution looks like: A student stands before a tank. A fruit seller sets himself on fire. A line of monks link arms in a human chain. Crowds surge, soldiers fire, gusts of rage pull down the monuments of tyrants, and maybe, sometimes, justice rises from the flames. Nancy Gibbs

Justice Fruit Sometimes Fire Before Revolution Down Rage Sets Birth Soldiers Tyrants Monuments Rises Crowds Student Like Know Looks Arms Himself Surge Tank Line Link Seller Flames Human Maybe Stands Chain Monks Pull

There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt. And, of course, there are Christian monks and nuns who already use Buddhist methods in order to develop their devotion, compassion, and ability to forgive. Dalai Lama

Compassion Christian Meditation Nuns Ability Adopt Develop Buddhism Buddhist Devotion Course Methods Forgive Order Anyone Use Who Techniques Monks

A lot of the powerful religious leaders, from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks, they're really talking about the same things: love and acceptable, and the value of friendship, and respecting yourself so you can respect others. Jena Malone

Love Friendship You Respect Yourself Value Others Respecting Religious Religious Leaders About Buddha Leaders Powerful Tibetan Talking Acceptable Lot Same Same Things Really Things Jesus Monks

Monks are not expected to speak about themselves; the message is important, not the person. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Speak Important About Message Person Expected Themselves Monks

You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks. Cameron Diaz

Silence You Complete Dawn Buddhist Until Monks

Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state. Cesare Pavese

State Bourgeois Artists Monks

At the age of eighty, the Dalai Lama has begun to discuss a range of prospects for the future disposition of his soul. Traditionally, after he dies, a search party of senior monks would set out to locate his new incarnation, who is most often a boy toddler, who goes on to be trained as a monk and a leader. Evan Osnos

Future Soul Age Leader Party Disposition Locate Range Out Would He Prospects New Most Boy His Trained Discuss Begun Goes Dies Often Senior After Eighty Lama Toddler Incarnation Who Search Dalai Monk Dalai Lama Monks Set

I don't believe footballers have to live like monks. Joe Hart

Live Believe Footballers Like Monks

Just studying Buddhism, then meditating and going to Buddhist monasteries, talking to Buddhist monks, combined with the Thai people themselves, changed the way I look at the world. John Burdett

People World Changed Way Buddhism Buddhist Studying Combined Look Talking Thai Going Just Themselves Then Monks Meditating

The Vikings certainly didn't write anything about themselves; it was not a literate, but rather a pagan, culture. So what we get was written later by Christian monks. But there were occasional reportings and recordings of people who had traded usually with the Vikings. Michael Hirst

I got interested in the Vikings, and then you realize that there isn't much to be read about them because they did not write their history. It was written by hostile witnesses, by Christian monks and so on. From what I could see and understand, I was really excited about it. I loved their culture and loved their gods. Michael Hirst

History You Culture Christian See About Could Write Hostile Written Excited Read Because Understand Witnesses Got Did Gods Loved Interested Them Realize Then Much Really Monks

Sir Terry Pratchett - he was knighted in 2009, and on him it looked earned rather than entitled - wrote about dragons, wizards, turtles, witches, time-travelling monks, and suitcases with legs. Nick Harkaway

Entitled Suitcases Earned About Rather He Looked Witches Wrote Him Terry Wizards Sir Than Legs Monks Dragons

I was filming in Roscrea in Co Tipperary. I had great fun watching monks in the monastery there making bread. They even offered me a job as their main baker. One of them said I would make a good monk, but I told him there was a slight problem because I was married. Paul Hollywood

Good Great Me Problem Job Slight Great Fun Married Would Main Had Baker Make Him Because Said Making Offered Bread Them Fun Even Monastery Monk Watching Monks Filming

When I became a novice monk, I lived in a temple where the atmosphere was quite like in a family. The abbot is like a father and other monks are like your big brothers, your small, younger brothers. It is a kind of family. Thich Nhat Hanh

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