Shunryu Suzuki Quotes

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

Shunryu Suzuki

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: leader
  • Nationality: japanese
  • Birth: May 18, 1904 - December 4, 1971

Topics

GoodYourselfYouBurnLeavingUp

You have to fix something when it first appears.

Joe Torre

YouFixFirstSomethingAppears

WWI is a romantic war, in all senses of the word. An entire generation of men and women left the comforts of Edwardian life to travel bravely, and sometimes even jauntily, to almost certain death. At the very least, any story or novel about WWI is about innocence shattered in the face of experience.

Anita Shreve

LifeWomenRomanticMenTravelWar

I never thought getting older would be so great. But when it comes to depression, I have experienced less the older I've gotten.

Amy Grant

GreatDepressionGetting OlderNever

That's one of the great lies of intimacy, to pretend you know everything - you cannot. No matter how close you've been, over however many years, there remain secrets. I think we all know that - that you don't tell everybody everything.

Siri Hustvedt

GreatThinkYouSecretsKnowMatter

A lot of women use pregnancy as an excuse to let their bodies go, and that's the worst thing.

Tracy Anderson

WomenGoWorstPregnancyWorst Thing

They haven't said it, but let's be clear: I would never have been on the list for James Bond, so I'm not labouring under that misapprehension.

Tom Hollander

BondSaidNeverClearBeenWould

I have a great liking for the Chamba folk music, which depicts the beauty of women and the mountains with a touch of Indian classical music.

Mohit Chauhan

BeautyWomenMusicGreatMountains

I think the qualities I look for in a girl I'd like to be my girlfriend would be the way Lindsay's character is before she becomes a plastic. Very real.

Jonathan Bennett

GirlCharacterThinkLookWayShe

I would head to the countryside for peace and silence. That would be the best way, away from panicked, hysterical people.

Diana Rigg

BestPeaceSilencePeopleWayHead

You don't have any communication between the Israelis and the Iranians. You have all sorts of local triggers for conflict. Having countries act on a hair trigger - where they can't afford to be second to strike - the potential for a miscalculation or a nuclear war through inadvertence is simply too high.

Dennis Ross

CommunicationWarConflictHairYou

I don't even watch my own show: I tape it, I'm out.

Christina Aguilera

My OwnOutOwnWatchShowEven

A fight can express things people might not be able to say with words.

Brandon Lee

WordsFightPeopleSayThingsAble

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