Quotes & Other Texts That I Find Inspirational & Thought Provoking
A monk told Joshu, “I have just entered the monastery. Please teach me.”Joshu asked, “Have you eaten your rice porridge? The monk replied, “I have eaten.” Joshu said, “Then you had better wash your bowl.” At that moment the monk was enlightened.
- Famous Zen Story
Zen is making your best effort on each moment… Forever
- Suzuki Roshi
You know you have reached perfection of design not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Never get too busy making a living that you forget to make a life.
- Unknown
What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it.
- Unknown
The philosophy of minimalism, as I see it, is having exactly what you need, when you need it, for as long as you need it. It’s not about just less, it’s about just right.
- Patrick Rhone
First there is a mountain, then there is no mountain, then there is.
- Zen Saying
Killing time murders opportunities.
- Chinese Fortune
It’s only after we loose everything, that we are free to do anything.
- Tyler Durgen, Fight Club
Common sense is not so common.
- Mark Twain
Live simply so that others may simply live.
- Elizabeth Ann Seton
Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.
- William Morris
The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
- Socrates
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
- Mark Twain
A day is a span of time no one is wealthy enough to waste.
- Chinese Fortune
Deification will hit the oscillator.
- Unknown
