Wendy Egyoku Nakao Roshi

You are alive, so be fully alive.

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Piety practiced in solitude, like the flower that blooms in the desert, may give its fragrance to the winds of heaven, and delight those unbodied spirits that survey the works of God and the actions of men; but it bestows no assistance upon earthly beings, and however free from taints of impurity, yet wants the sacred splendor of beneficence.

Art is the path of the creator to his work.

Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born -a hundred million years -and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together. There was a peace, a serenity, an absence of all sense of responsibility, an absence of worry, an absence of care, grief, perplexity; and the presence of a deep content and unbroken satisfaction in that hundred million years of holiday which I look back upon with a tender longing and with a grateful desire to resume, when the opportunity comes.

Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

If your mind isn’t clouded by unnecessary things, this is the best season of your life.

The universe is wider than our views of it.

Nothing astonishes people so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Choose people who lift you up.

I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

Energy doesn’t lie so trust those vibes you’re getting.

Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.