Quotes
Quotes about Nothing
Nothing can be done at once hastily and prudently.
Enjoy yourself, for there is nothing in the world we can call our own.
In this world nothing is sure but death and taxes.
Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot defeat; it is no less folly to fear what is impossible to be avoided than to be secure when there is a possibility to be deprived.
There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
Nothing common can seem worthy of you. [Lat., Nihil vulgare te dignum videri potest.]
Nothing gives an author so much pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors.
Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.
There is a need to find and sing our own song, to stretch our limbs and shake them in a dance so wild that nothing can roost there, that stirs the yearning for solitary voyage.
The more the years go by, the less I know. But if you give explanations and understand everything, then nothing can happen. What helps me go forward is that I stay receptive, I feel that anything can happen.
We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.
When the newspapers have got nothing else to talk about, they cut loose on the young. The young are always news. If they are up to something, that's news. If they aren't, that's news too.
I remember a passage in Goldsmith's "Vicar of Wakefield," which he was afterwards fool enough to expunge: "I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing."
The tighter you squeeze, the less you have. The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say We did it ourselves. The mind that does not understand is the Buddha. There is no other. â¢Ma-Tsu You cannot describe it or draw it. You cannot praise it enough or perceive it. No place can be found in which to put the Original Face; it will not disappear even when the universe is destroyed. â¢Mumon Learning Zen is a phenomenon of gold and dung. Before you understand it, it's like gold; after you understand it, it's like dung. â¢Zen Saying No thought, no reflection, no analysis, no cultivation, no intention; let it settle itself. â¢Tilopa When you pass through, no one can pin you down, no one can call you back. â¢Ying-An There are no mundane things outside of Buddhism, and there is no Buddhism outside of mundane things. â¢Yuan-Wu The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. â¢Robert M. Pirsig Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it's dark. â¢Zen Proverb Sit quietly, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself.
