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Zen Quotes

Last updated: December 19, 2020

40 Zen Quotes organized by Most Popular

“I loved the smell of ocean water. Salt always smells like memory.”
— Matthew Stadler, Where We Live Now: An Annotated Reader
Tagged: Nature, Nostalgia, Surfing, Happiness, Zen, Ocean, beach
“You never know what you have until it’s gone, and I wanted to know what I had, so I got rid of everything.”
— Steven Wright, Steven Wright, master of meh: 'This is just how I talk. It accidentally went well with the jokes'
Tagged: One-Liners, Zen, Absurd, Surreal, Deadpan, Standup Comics
“Just a friendly reminder that functioning under the impression that you must be happy all the time can stress you out. Relax. Feel what you're feeling and let it flow.”
— Andrian Janog Jutba, via Facebook
Tagged: Zen, Happiness, yoga, relax, Spilled Ink, Stress, emotions
“Life gets messy sometimes. You gotta learn you can’t always fix it.”
— Alex Vause, Orange Is the New Black: "Season 1, Episode 11"
Tagged: OITNB, Life, Pessimist, Acceptance, Zen
“In a society that profits from your self doubt, liking yourself is a rebellious act”
— Caroline Caldwel, via twitter.com
Tagged: Spilled Ink, Important, Over-Thinker, Social Anxiety, Capitalism, beauty, Insecurities, Self-Love, Empowering, Perspective, Zen
“Silence isn’t empty, it’s full of answers.”
— @96l
Tagged: Silence, Tumblr Quotes, Zen, Perspective
“I knew I was comfortable in my space again when I looked forward to going home and just being there all night.”
— Farah Altoumah, A Small Home Gets a Design Refresh After a Breakup
Tagged: Design, Happiness, Zen, Breakups, Redesign, Home Decor, Interior Design
“If you can't imitate him, don't copy him.”
— Yogi Berra, What Time Is It? You Mean Now?: Advice for Life from the Zennest Master of Them All
Tagged: imitation, copying, Zen, Koan
“It gets late early out there.”
— Yogi Berra, What Time Is It? You Mean Now?: Advice for Life from the Zennest Master of Them All
Tagged: late, early, Zen, Koan
“Try to look at your experience here as a mandala, Chapman. Work hard to make something as meaningful and beautiful as you can. And when you're done, pack it in and know it was all temporary. You have to remember that. It's all temporary.”
— Yoga Jones, Orange Is The New Black: "Season 1, Episode 1"
Tagged: OITNB, Zen, Perspective, Peace, Acceptance, Moving Forward, Hard Work, Spilled Ink
“Not everything happens for a reason. Some things happen purely because evil exists in the world. That did not happen to you because you deserved it. It didn’t happen to you because you needed to learn a lesson. There are lessons you can learn without experiencing pain.”
— caringsuggestions, via Tumblr
Tagged: Pain, Perspective, Zen, Peace, The Universe, Life, purpose, Faith
“We can’t have everything, ’cause where would we put it?”
— Lemmy Kilmister, Lemmy interviewed in 2004: 'People don’t know how to be outrageous any more'
Tagged: Having It All, Zen
“Close some doors. Not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because they no longer lead somewhere.”
— Paulo Coelho
Tagged: Important, Letting Go, Change, Break Up, Acceptance, Zen, Wisdom, Bad Friendship, Bad For Me
“Practice will never make you perfect. Why should it? What fun would that be?”
— Stephen King, On Writing
Tagged: Writing, Zen
“So, now I shall talk every night. To myself. To the moon. I shall walk, as I did tonight, jealous of my loneliness, in the blue-silver of the cold moon, shining brilliantly on the drifts of fresh-fallen snow, with the myriad sparkles. I talk to myself and look at the dark trees, blessedly neutral. So much easier than facing people, than having to look happy, invulnerable, clever.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath
Tagged: Alone, Social Anxiety, Nature, Zen
“Don’t waste your life in front of a screen. If given the choice, avoid any kind of prison. Especially the ones we put ourselves in.”
— Adam Gnade, The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Fighting the Big Motherfuckin' Sad
Tagged: Technology, Social Media, Zen
“Grow in your own time peacefully.”
— THE SLUMFLOWER
Tagged: Glo Up, Self-Care, Zen
“His narrator has left us a way out that can be reclaimed by anyone venturesome enough to try it: He patiently attends to his own motorcycle, submits to its quirky mechanical needs and learns to understand it. His way of living with machines doesn’t rely on the seductions of effortless convenience; it requires us to get our hands dirty, to be self-reliant.”
— Matthew B. Crawford, Why Robert Pirsig's 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance' Still Resonates Today
Tagged: Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Technology, The Digital Life, Balance, Zen, convenience, The future
“Boxing is about hitting your opponent and not taking any in return, that’s the way I look at boxing.”
— Tyson Fury, Tyson Fury Media Interview Transcript | BoxingInsider.com
Tagged: Wilder-Fury II, Boxing, Zen
“I reject the idea that the pot is nearly at a boil and I must watch it closely until the exact moment that it happens.”
— Ryan Holiday, Want to Really Make America Great Again? Stop Reading the News.
Tagged: Media, News, Twitter, Social Media, Politics, Zen, For when things seem hard, My aesthetic
“We are addicted to our thoughts. We cannot change anything if we cannot change our thinking.”
— Santosh Kalwar, Quote Me Everyday
Tagged: Over Thinking, Over-Thinker, Important, Zen
“Feed, heal, transform your soul. Become that which moves you.”
— Sade Andria Zabala, 14 Essential Steps To Love Yourself Every Single Day
Tagged: Zen, Soulful, Artist, Glo Up
“Reduce intellectual and emotional noise
until you arrive at the silence of yourself,
and listen to it.”
— Richard Brautigan, Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar
Tagged: Zen, Inner Peace, Important, Silence, Self-Discovery
“Close your eyes (shutting out distractions), focus on your feelings inside, and smile for one minute.”
— Rhonda Byrne, The Secret
Tagged: Distractions, Life Hacks, Focus, Zen, Smile, Happiness
“The garden is about life and beauty and the impermanence of all living things. The garden is about feeding your children, providing food for the tribe…And what a wonderful relief every so often to know who your enemy is–because in the garden, the enemy is everything: the aphids, the weather, time. And so you pour yourself into it, care so much, and see up close so much birth and growth and beauty and danger and triumph–and then everything dies anyway, right? But you just keep doing it.”
— Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Tagged: OITNB, Garden, Life, Inspirational, Death, Temporary, Time, Zen, Spilled Ink
“Nothing in the world can bother you as much as your own mind, I tell you. In fact, others seem to be bothering you, but it is not others, it is your own mind.”
— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Celebrating Silence
Tagged: Awareness, Zen, Peace, Wisdom, Philosophy, Deep Thoughts, Spilled Ink, Social Anxiety, Mind
“75% of baseball is mental; the other half is physical.”
— Yogi Berra, Yogi Berra's Baseball Book: The Game and How to Play It
Tagged: baseball, mental, physical, Absurd, Zen, Koan
“If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be.”
— Yogi Berra, When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It!: Inspiration and Wisdom from One of Baseball's Greatest Heroes
Tagged: Perfect, Zen, Koan
“We made too many wrong mistakes.”
— Yogi Berra, What Time Is It? You Mean Now?: Advice for Life from the Zennest Master of Them All
Tagged: Mistakes, Wrong Mistakes, Redundancy, Zen, Koan
“I was once walking through the forest alone. A tree fell right in front of me, and I didn't hear a thing.”
— Steven Wright
Tagged: Zen, Koan, If a Tree Falls
“Lane Moore knows that one person's garbage is another person's gold—and, specifically hers”
— Allison Stubblebine, Lane Moore Loves Digging Through Trash When She's Alone
Tagged: Trash, Alone, Things, Happiness, Zen
“No matter where you go, there you are,”
— Yogi Berra, When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It!: Inspiration and Wisdom from One of Baseball's Greatest Heroes
Tagged: Absurd, Zen, Koan
“If you don't know where you are going, you will end up somewhere else.”
— Yogi Berra, The Yogi Book
Tagged: Zen, Absurd, Koan
“When you see a fork in the road...Take It!!”
— Yogi Berra, The Yogi Book
Tagged: Absurd, Zen, Koan
“If I didn't wake up, I'd still be sleeping.”
— Yogi Berra, When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It!: Inspiration and Wisdom from One of Baseball's Greatest Heroes
Tagged: Stating the Obvious, Zen, Koan
“I knew the record would stand until it was broken.”
— Yogi Berra, The Yogi Book
Tagged: record, Broken Record, Johnny Bench, Zen, Koan
“He was, in his way, as close to a Zen master as I've ever had, and all of us who fell under his influence began with his style and eventually ended up with our own.”
— Nora Ephron, The Most of Nora Ephron
Tagged: Zen
“Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.”
— Rumi, A quote by Jalaluddin Rumi
Tagged: Self love, Lonely, The Universe, Zen, Spilled Ink
“The world is full of nice people. If you can’t find one, be one.”
— Unknown, via Tumblr
Tagged: Kindess, Love, Life, Self-improvement, Zen
“Some days I have the privilege of fresh produce, other days I have the privilege of time.”
— Zoe Yang, Pandemic Cooking Isn’t About Hope. It’s About Practical Magic
Tagged: Cooking, coronavirus, COVID-19, Happiness, Zen