Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

Have a new Quotes for Today up on my Substack. As I've mentioned doing this as a way to thank those who have Subscribed. If you are a Subscriber - you should have received an email. Thanks.

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

Have a new Quotes for Today up on my Substack. As I've mentioned doing this as a way to thank those who have Subscribed. If you are a Subscriber - you should have received an email. Thanks.

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

Have a new Quotes for Today up on my Substack. As I've mentioned doing this as a way to thank those who have Subscribed. If you are a Subscriber - you should have received an email. Thanks.

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

"As long as hope is without expectations or attachment, there's no problem." - Bernie Glassman

"Common sense and a sense of humour are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humour is just common sense, dancing. Those who lack humour are without judgement and should be trusted with nothing." - Clive James

"Reading is free. Exercise is free. Hard work is free. In both opportunity and real cost, it's more expensive to be dumb, fat, and broke." - Ed Latimore

"A belief is not dangerous until it turns absolute." - Dee Hock

Quotes for Today

Some quotes that I hope may resonate with you.

"I have as much authority as the Pope. I just don't have as many people who believe it." - George Carlin

"Do one thing today that makes tomorrow easier. Repeat." - Shane Parrish

"But I will accept any rules you feel necessary for your freedom. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them, if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do." - Robert Heinlein

"Let me give you a wonderful Zen practice. Wake up in the morning, go to the bathroom, pee, brush your teeth, look in the mirror, and laugh at yourself. Do it every morning to start off the day, as a practice." - Bernie Glassman

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

"If you don't know what your top three priorities are, you don't have priorities." - Donald Rumsfeld

"Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time." - Paulo Coelho

"You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time." - M. Scott Peck

"The things I'm surrounded by are going to change and disappear, so let me enjoy their beauty as they are right now." - Bernie Glassman

Quotes for Today

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"A denied expectation hurts more than a denied hope, while a fulfilled hope makes us happier than a fulfilled expectation. Hope's got a higher return on happiness and less debit on denial, it's just not as measurable." - Matthew McConaughey

"As long as hope is without expectations or attachment, there's no problem." - Bernie Glassman

"Common sense and a sense of humour are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humour is just common sense, dancing. Those who lack humour are without judgement and should be trusted with nothing." - Clive James

"Reading is free. Exercise is free. Hard work is free. In both opportunity and real cost, it's more expensive to be dumb, fat, and broke." - Ed Latimore

Shalom

 

"The Hebrew word for peace is shalom. Many people know that word, but what they may not know is that the root of shalom is shalem, which means whole. To make something shalem, to make peace, is to make whole." - Bernie Glassman The Dude and the Zen Master

Quotes for Today

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"Robert Johnson wrote that the word happiness comes from to happen. Our happiness is what happens." - Jeff Bridges 

"A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week." - General George Patton

"Modern capitalism is a pro at two things: generating wealth and generating envy." - Morgan Housel

"Take care of yourself right now. Befriend what's happening, not just who you're supposed to be or what the world should be like. This is where you are now, so how do you care for yourself this minute?" - Bernie Glassman

The Dude and the Zen Master on Cigars

Jeff Bridges: How do cigars jibe with, you know, the view that the body is a temple and all that stuff?

Bernie Glassman: The body is a temple, so you should offer it some incense. 

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

"Every behavior has a surface level craving and a deeper underlying motive." - James Clear

"I can't turn off hope. It's hopeless." - Jeff Bridges

"We like to hide from the truth behind foreign-sounding words or mathematical lingo. There's a saying: The truth is always encountered but rarely perceived." - Bernie Glassman

"For myself, I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else." - Winston Churchill

A Zen Practice You Can Do Every Morning

"Let me give you a wonderful Zen practice. Wake up in the morning, go to the bathroom, pee, brush your teeth, look in the mirror, and laugh at yourself. Do it every morning to start off the day, as a practice." - Bernie Glassman