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The Buddha and all sentient beings are not two. — Takuan Soho

Preoccupied with a single leaf, you won't see the tree.
Preoccupied with a single tree, you'll miss the entire forest. — Takuan Soho

Zen is to have the heart and soul of a little child. — Takuan Soho

When there's lightning, don't stand alone or think you'll be protected by hiding in the trees. Find the nearest ditch and lie as low in it as you can. — Patricia Cornwell

Each leg of our trip gets worse and worse. I wish someone would knock me unconscious until the madness ended. — Victoria Prince

I'm not even sure we remembered to kiss. What we had went deeper than a kiss — Kami Garcia

Life is a playground and a laboratory; avoid neglecting one for the other. — T.F. Hodge

Sever the edge between before and after. — Takuan Soho

There was always life and life always wanted to live. — Philip Dodd

When you look at a tree, se it for its leafs, its branches, its trunk and the roots, then and only then will you see the tree — Takuan Soho

Completely forget about the mind and you will do all things well — Takuan Soho

I just hope people don't get sick of us. I'm sick of us and I'm in Destiny's Child. — Beyonce Knowles

Black women don't have the same body image problems as white women. They are proud of their bodies. — Tyra Banks

A class system is something you use to discriminate someone who looks like you — Reginald D. Hunter

I kneel in the nights before tigers that will not let me be. what you were will not happen again. the tigers have found me and I do not care. — Charles Bukowski

If you follow the present-day world, you will turn your back on the Way; if you would not turn your back on the Way, do not follow the world. — Takuan Soho

It is the very mind itself that leads the mind astray - of the mind, do not be mindless — Takuan Soho

One is not likely to achieve understanding from the explanation of another. — Takuan Soho

Play dead. She remained on her belly, eyes closed, breathing shallowly. Please, let him think I'm dead. — Marissa Clarke

The minds of small children are more interested in clockwork trains, jumping in puddles and other important childhood endeavours. — Maxwell Grantly

To talk nonsense in one's own way is almost better than to talk a truth that's someone else's — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Whether early or late, the Parker novels are all superlative literary entertainments. — Terry Teachout

If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself. — Rick Riordan

Yeah, well, it's been a super fun week. And by 'super fun' I mean 'horrible and endless'. — MaryJanice Davidson

One may explain water, but the mouth will not become wet. One may expound fully on the nature of fire, but the mouth will not become hot. — Takuan Soho