Zan Tsu Quotes

#1. I knew from experience there isn't anything anyone can really say to help you through your grief. You just have to let the pain wash over you over and over again, until the tide of it drifts back and away, slowly and gradually. #Quote by Koethi Zan

#2. You didn't want children?' I don't remember who said this, Susan or I or both of us together. 'Oh God, no. I saw what children do. They turn a good respectable woman into a mudd-dha. I didn't want to be a mudh-dha. I didn't want to be turned inside out. I didn't want to have my world shifted so that I was no longer the centre of it. This is what you have to be careful about, Lao-Tsu. It never happens to men. They just sow the seed and hand out the cigars when you've pushed a football through your vadge. For the next hundred years of your life, you're stuck with being someone whose definition isn't even herself. You're now someone's mudd-dha!' She #Quote by Jerry Pinto

#3. I was very fond of strange stories when I was a child. In my village-school days, I used to buy stealthily popular novels and historical recitals. Fearing that my father and my teacher might punish me for this and rob me of these treasures, I carefully hid them in secret places where I could enjoy them unmolested. As I grew older, my love for strange stories became even stronger, and I learned of things stranger than what I had read in my childhood. When I was in my thirties, my memory was full of these stories accumulated through years of eager seeking. l have always admired such writers of the T'ang Dynasty as Tuan Ch'eng-shih [author of the Yu-yang tsa-tsu] and Niu Sheng [author of the Hsuan-kuai lu]. Who wrote short stories so excellent in portrayal of men and description of things. I often had the ambition to write a book (of stories) which might be compared with theirs. But I was too lazy to write, and as my laziness persisted, I gradually forgot most of the stories which I had learned. Now only these few stories, less than a score, have survived and have so successfully battled against my laziness that they are at last written down. Hence this Book of Monsters. I have sometimes laughingly said to myself that it is not I who have found these ghosts and monsters, but they, the monstrosities themselves, which have found me! ... Although my book is called a book or monsters, it is not confined to them: it also records the strange things of the human world and sometimes con #Quote by Wu Cheng'en

#4. I would, and I will. You know my theory. Plunge in. Face the fear head-on. Stay on the offense. #Quote by Koethi Zan

#5. Why do women go out with jerks? Because jerks ask. #Quote by Zan Perrion

#6. You can focus on Jesus or Buddha or Krishna, Ramakrishna, Lao Tsu, Yukteswar, Yogananda, Vivekananda, any of the great spiritual teachers who have lived, or on a living teacher, and draw light from them. #Quote by Frederick Lenz

#7. I view the forbidden as an invitation. #Quote by Zané Sachs

#8. People have this idea of what fangirls look like, and she's not it. She can get away with so much pretending. #Quote by Zan Romanoff

#9. Education - The bringing up, as of a child; instruction; formation of manners. Education comprehends all that instruction and discipline which is intended to enlighten the understanding, correct the temper, and form the manners and habits of youth, and fit them for usefulness in their future stations. (1828 Edition of Noah Webster) #Quote by Zan Tyler

#10. In a dream I saw myself as a great and colorful butterfly; now I am not sure if I am Chuang-Tsu dreaming I was a butterfly, or I am a butterfly dreaming I am Chuang-Tsu. #Quote by Chuang Tzu

#11. Plunge in. Face the fear head-on. #Quote by Koethi Zan

#12. Lao Tsu always points a finger directly to us. He says we must begin with ourselves. It's impossible to bring order into the world unless we bring order into ourselves. #Quote by Frederick Lenz

#13. Ah-rah-han, the first Buddhist apostle of Burma, under the patronage of King Anan-ra-tha-men-zan, disseminated the doctrines of atheism and taught his disciples to pant after annihilation as the supreme good. #Quote by Adoniram Judson

#14. Everything you desire is outside your comfort zone - otherwise, you would already have it. #Quote by Zan Perrion

#15. Men who love women are loved by women #Quote by Zan Perrion

#16. I could tell you the truth about me ... but to seduce you, I will tell you the truth about you ... #Quote by Zan Perrion

#17. What if they'd brought some weapon with them, or are launching an assault on the Mokshi right now? How can you or her trust people who are no better than bandits?" I gaze at the human skin stretched over the table. Zan follows my look and quiets. "We are all villains here," I say. #Quote by Kameron Hurley

#18. A man who can make fun of himself is a man at peace with himself, completely and unapologetically being himself, never shy about being put on the spot, with nothing to prove and no fear of ridicule. #Quote by Zan Perrion

#19. We have forgotten how to have fun. We unlearn fun. Every interaction with women should be infused with fun. This includes the way we meet, the way we date, the way we are together in bed, and the way we are together in relationship. If it isn't fun, what's the point? If it isn't fun, it needs to be left behind. Because... why not? We are treasure hunters, adventurers, raconteurs, are we not? #Quote by Zan Perrion

#20. The point of fandom was that it was the one place she wasn't afraid to be anything. #Quote by Zan Romanoff

#21. phoenix-
your back to
the mirror-

you are the most
immortal death #Quote by Banoo Zan

#22. Sri Krishna's message is the message of anyone who comes from far away. His message is the same as Buddha, Lao Tsu, Bodhidharma, Milarepa, Padmasambhava. #Quote by Frederick Lenz

#23. And for the first time, I pity her, because when she says love, I think she really means it. For her, this is love. This is what she does to someone she loves. And I wonder if I am any better, because this is what I did to Zan all those rotations ago. I seduced her until she loved me with all her heart, and when it came time to do what needed to be done, I was willing to sacrifice that love, but she was not. #Quote by Kameron Hurley

#24. If we could see ourselves the way that others see us, we would be amazed. #Quote by Zan Perrion

#25. Can you feel that in the air? That urgency? For there is an urgency
There is no time to waste!
Let the trumpet sound throughout the land!
A clarion call for a new way of being.
Head toward the light, and only the light. Destroy your options. Cross your personal Rubicon.
Burn your ships.
Ride your horse as it can go, then dismount and carry on.
Forward!
Never settle!
Dregs settle.
Lead! Lead!
And never follow again! #Quote by Zan Perrion

#26. Jes always seemed too obvious. Even girls who didn't care about Fever Dream knew he was the most beautiful one. #Quote by Zan Romanoff

#27. You do not recognize what truth is, so you call it a trick. That is why you are not wise, Jenna Zan Arbor. Wisdom is something you cannot identify because you cannot measure it with your instruments. - Qui-Gon Jinn #Quote by Jude Watson

#28. You could be nothing,' Lulu says.
'I could be anything,' Cass corrects. #Quote by Zan Romanoff

#29. She wanted to be with people who loved what she loved. Who felt that love all through them like fire, like light. #Quote by Zan Romanoff

#30. Lao Tsu says the way of life is ancient, timeless. It is existence which he calls the Tao - a mysterious source, beyond understanding, and all of us are a reflection, if not that source of life ourselves. #Quote by Frederick Lenz

#31. Thoreau wrote, "the mass of men live lives of quiet desperation." This is as true today as it was back then. How many men stand on a balcony and wonder what happened?... He wanted adventure and he got two weeks' vacation. He wanted a mission and he got a lawn that needs mowing. He wanted purpose and he got a cubicle. He wanted a mighty steed and he got a minivan. He wanted a castle and he got a mortgage. He wanted a battle to fight and he got televised sports. He wanted wisdom and he got talking heads on TV. He wanted treasure and he got endless debt. He wanted every part of his life to be wonderful, and here he is... standing on a balcony, in bleak, ruminating hesitation. #Quote by Zan Perrion

#32. Lao Tsu uses the anology of the tree. The old hard tree breaks and falls when the wind blows. The young tree bends and does not break. He advises us to bend and not to break. #Quote by Frederick Lenz

#33. Honesty is the greatest aphrodisiac. #Quote by Zan Perrion

#34. Don't return to your native town:
you can't teach the truth there.
By the village stream an old woman
is calling you by your childhood name. #Quote by Ma-Tsu

#35. If you're telling the story, it means you're still alive. If you're telling the story, it means you're still haunted by it too. #Quote by Zan Romanoff

#36. You are the language
so universal
you are forgotten

Be my linguist

Turn me
into your words. #Quote by Banoo Zan

#37. When it was all over
the centuries started
to roll by

and history was written
by those
with no stories

misery turned into myth
and figures of speech
played catalyst
to happiness #Quote by Banoo Zan

#38. Lao Tsu found Taoism easy to reconcile withthe world of human beings, which is interesting because with all the nature imagery, one might think it was in some way antithetical to contempory life. #Quote by Frederick Lenz

#39. Beauty needs a witness. #Quote by Zan Perrion

#40. Whoever she ends up with will walk into her life midway through, and she'll have to figure out how to make room for him in the middle of all her clutter and mess. She'll have to figure out how much of herself she can show him without scaring him off. #Quote by Zan Romanoff

#41. Where you look is where your life goes. Head toward the light and only the light. #Quote by Zan Perrion

#42. In turkle time a lin is the briefest moment that can just about be measured. Ninety lins make a tikk, one hundred tikks make a lod, thirty eight lods make a yan, the time it takes the planet Ankor to make one complete turn in the path of the star, Ruru, its main source of light and warmth. Ten yans make a zac. Six zacs make a yod, twenty yods make a zik. Twelve ziks make a zan. Sixteen zans make a nik. #Quote by Philip Dodd

#43. There is a war
in your name

I have martyred you
sold you
to freedom

oh, Freedom #Quote by Banoo Zan

#44. That's when she started lying to her friends about how she spending her time; that was when fandom went from an occasional hobby to a necessary escape hatch. #Quote by Zan Romanoff

#45. Being yourself doesn't attract women ... being your most attractive self, does. #Quote by Zan Perrion