Ruth Ozeki Quotes
Top 88 wise famous quotes and sayings by Ruth Ozeki
Ruth Ozeki Famous Quotes & Sayings
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We were soldiers, but even before we were showed how to kill our enemies, they taught us how to kill ourselves.
An unfinished book. left unattended, turns feral, and she would need all her focus, will and ruthless determination to tame it again.
To study the Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by all the myriad things.
You never know who it's going to be, or what they'll bring, but whatever it is, it's always exactly what is needed.
The wondrous thing about nature, her gift to us, is her wanton promiscuity. She reproduces herself with abandon, with teeming infinite generosity.
When up looks up, up is down. When down looks down, down is up. Not-one, not-two. Not same. Not different. Now do you see? It
There's so much to write. Where should I start?
I texted my old Jiko this question, and she wrote me back this:
'You should start where you are
I texted my old Jiko this question, and she wrote me back this:
'You should start where you are
There's nothing like realizing that you don't have much time left to stimulate your appreciation for the moments of your life.
The eternal now," he said. "She wanted to catch it, remember? To pin it down. That was the point." "Of writing?" "Or suicide.
I believe it doesn't matter what it is, as long as you can find something concrete to keep you busy while you are living your meaningless life.
No matter how much bullying they inflict on my body, as long as I have this hope, I can endure any pain.
As someone who has to teach for a living, I shouldn't be saying this, but the planet can do quite well without books.
It costs so much to make films. With a novel, you can write the whole thing on a ream of paper from Staples for $4.
Death is certain. Life is always changing, like a puff of wind in the air, or a wave in the sea, or even a thought in the mind.
Where do words come from? They come from the dead. We inherit them. Borrow them. Use them for a time to bring the dead to life.
When a breeze blew, petals rained down on my upturned face, and I stopped and gasped, stunned by the beauty and sadness.
When I wash my feet May all sentient beings Attain the power of supernatural feet With no hindrance to their practice. Of
The ancient Greeks believed that when you read aloud, it was actually the dead, borrowing your tongue, in order to speak again.
Patience was part of his nature, and he accepted his lot as a short-lived mammal, scurrying in and out amid the roots of the giants.
I think all characters are facets of the writer. In a way, they have to be if you're going to write them convincingly.
I think that if we don't learn to inhabit other people's perspectives, then we're never going to understand why people do what they do.
As I bathe myself
I pray with all beings
that we can purify body and mind
and clean ourselves inside and out.
I pray with all beings
that we can purify body and mind
and clean ourselves inside and out.
There's something about Vonnegut's deadpan irony that I really like. And I like Borges' puzzle structure.
Like a small boat adrift in the fog, she caught glimpses during patches when the mist cleared of a world far away, in which everything was changing.
But memories are time beings, too, like cherry blossoms or ginkgo leaves; for a while they are beautiful, and then they fade and die.
Maybe all teenagers feel like they don't fit in. I never felt like a cool kid. I remember being bullied for being Asian.
On the far side stretched the open Pacific and beyond, but the crow could not fly high enough to see its way home.
I believe that in the deepest places in their hearts, people are violent and take pleasure in hurting each other.
Do you have a cat and is she sitting on your lap? Does her forehead smell like cedar trees and fresh sweet air?