"It is easy to have calmness in inactivity, it is hard to have calmness in activity, but calmness in activity is true calmness."

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Source : Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.31, Shambhala Publications

Shunryu Suzuki

#Easy Quotes #Calmness Quotes

“If somebody says, you know, to love your enemies, you could say, 'Well I'm going to love them to death.' We've done that sort of stuff so it can be done. But if you really start with love your enemies, and if you look at the tradition of the first Christian centuries, nobody ever seems to suggest well if they come after us to persecute us, is it alright to kill a few? Defensively, of course.”

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“No cigar-smoker ever committed suicide.”

Source : William Maginn (1855). “The Odoherty papers”, p.137
“habits are happiness of a sort...”
“The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget.”
“I, who wanted danger, adventure, and love”
“In the beginning, we had a great deal of freedom, and Jerry wrote completely out of his imagination - very, very freely. We even had no editorial supervision to speak of, because they were in such a rush to get the thing in before deadline. But later on we were restricted.”
“I am very glad to have this particular opportunity of saying a word about some of the things in which we agree with our Masonic friends, because we are speaking in a building dedicated to Masonry, and we also are Masons. I am a Freemason.”
“As for developing a writing style'I would say that I tried to copy the pacing of the old movies I loved as a kid.”

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