Zen- Dojo Tozan was not in Sarnen or Thu but somewhere between the two, not in a village but in the tall grass and blue flowers.
– Ann Patchett
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- I once visited a village of primitive people.At village, I felt time and life moved slower. – Toba Beta
- But I will never ask anyone from our village-from any village in Tlanth-to risk his or her life unless I’m willing to myself. – Sherwood Smith
- Magic lies in between things, between the day and the night, between yellow and blue, between any two things. – Charles de Lint
- Scarlet the poppies Blue the corn-flowers, Golden the wheat. Gold for the Eternal: Blue for Our Lady: Red for the five Wounds of her Son. – Adelaide Crapsey
- Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen. – Bodhidharma
- The path of Tao is not that of sudden enlightenment. It is not like Zen. Zen is sudden enlightenment, Tao is gradual growth. – Osho
- A rich man loves to work, a poor man loves to eat. – Dng Thu Hng
- In the plains the grass grows tall, since there is no one to cut it. There is no one to water it either. – Vera Nazarian
- I stand out not because I am six feet tall,But because I feel six feet tall. – Anthony T Hincks
- He looked at the blue sky above and the green grass below and he knew he would always love this world! – Avijeet Das
- The grass may be greener on the other side, but will the sky be as blue? – Court Young
- In my head, the sky is blue, the grass is green and cats are orange. – Jim Davis
- The entire time Albie followed Beverly around the house doing what the children referred to as -œthe stripper soundtra – Ann Patchett
- It’s easier to love a woman when you can’t understand a word she’s saying. – Ann Patchett
- Always remember, any book you haven’t read is still a new book. – Ann Patchett
- Katsumi Hosokawa – (he) believed that life, true life, was something that was stored in music. – Ann Patchett
- Oh, my love,’ she said. ‘What do the only children do?”We’ll never have to know. – Ann Patchett
- He was in love, and never had he felt such kindness towards another person. – Ann Patchett
- One must not be shy where language is concerned. – Ann Patchett
- She didn’t know how to hate her mother yet, but every time she left her father crying in the airport she came that much closer to figuring it out. – Ann Patchett
- …the terrible crumple and blanch of a lie come undone… – Ann Patchett
- Sleep was a country for which he could not obtain a visa. – Ann Patchett
- The sleep he went back to was never the one he left. – Ann Patchett
- Gen was sleeping the sleep of the heavily drugged. – Ann Patchett
- Isn’t that what everyone wants, just for a moment to be unencumbered? – Ann Patchett
- We shared ideas like sweaters, with easy exchange and lack of ownership. – Ann Patchett
- Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world – Ann Patchett
- Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world – Ann Patchett
- Maybe that was the definition of life everlasting: the belief that the next generation would carry your work forward. – Ann Patchett
- If want a person wants is his life, he tends to be quiet about wanting anything else. – Ann Patchett
- If a novel was a map of a country, a story was the bright silver pin that marked the crossroads. – Ann Patchett
- Every hour, she thinks, someone for whom the war was memory falls out of the world. We rise again in the grass. In the flowers. In songs. – Anthony Doerr
- When the young womanleans over the sky,about to water the flowers as well as the weeds,her white front splits openuntil her milk runs. – Gnter Grass
- Stand tall and be proud. Realize confidence is charismatic and something that is something money can’t buy, it radiates from within you. – Cindy Ann Peterson
- And I want to be with you till the birds forget how to fly in the blue azure sky and the fish forget how to swim in the blue green sea… – Avijeet Das
- There are brown eyes in the world, after all, as well as blue, and one pair of brown that meant heaven to me as the blue had never done – E Nesbit
- everybody say’s that blue eyed is a freak,but i say that my blue is unique! – ARMaria
- The beauty of white snow, white clouds, blue sky and blue sea represent the gift of nature. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- The sky grew darker, painted blue on blue, one stroke at a time, into deeper and deeper shades of night. – Haruki Murakami
- How do I know that what I see as blue and what you see as blue are the same thing? Answer: We don’t. We take it on faith. – Barry Lyga