Caryl Chessman famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

It is my hope and my belief that you will be able to report that I died with dignity, without animal fear and without bravado. I owe that much to myself.
-- Caryl Chessman

#Animal #Able #Belief
Further, a document names and identifies the actual Red Light Bandits (plural), because in fact there are two.
-- Caryl Chessman

#Light #Names #Two
My soul is not for sale.
-- Caryl Chessman

#Soul
I am not generally regarded as a pleasant or socially minded fellow.
-- Caryl Chessman

#Pleasant
A cat, I am told, has nine lives. If that is true, I know how a cat feels.
-- Caryl Chessman

#Cat #Nine #Nine Lives

To be nonviolent to human beings and to be a killer or enemy of the poor animals is Satan's philosophy. In this age there is always enmity against poor animals, and therefore the poor creatures are always anxious. The reaction of the poor animals is being forced on human society, and therefore there is always strain of cold or hot war between men, individually, collectively or nationally.
Therefore a person fully absorbed in the bodily concept of life is surely killing himself by not making spiritual progress. Such a person is called pasu-ghna. Especially excluded from spiritual life are the animal hunters, who are not interested in hearing and chanting the holy name of the Lord. Such hunters are always unhappy, both in this life and in the next. It is therefore said that a hunter should neither die nor live because for such persons both living and dying are troublesome.
Animals keep you company when you're really lonely. It helps because when you have a friend around who always likes you no matter what - it's harder to feel bad or down.
Fame is a very strange animal.
Once you have your practice and you have your mechanics, you must be able to go out there and trust your mechanics.
You can teach taste, editorial sense, but the ability to say something funny is something I've never been able to teach anyone.
Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.
All money is a matter of belief.
The biggest barrier to awakening is the belief that it is something rare.
I think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness... their 'disability.' And I'm certain we all have one, because I think of a disability as being anything which undermines our belief and confidence in our own abilities.

Caryl Chessman famous quotes

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