"I grew with it, and I used to go to see the monks, who had no possessions, even more extreme than my mother."

Family, Mother, Extreme, Possessions

18

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"I grew with it, and I used to go to see the monks, who had no possessions, even more extreme than my mother."

Exlpore more Family quotes

"I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

Family, Mothers, Nations

"Mother is the center of the family, everyone else surrounds her."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Family, Mother, Center, Surrounds

"Behind all your stories is always your mother's story. Because hers is where yours begin."

Mitch Albom, American Writer

Family, Mother, Story, Beginning, Life

"If you don't have the support and love and caring and connection that you get from a family, you don't have much at all."

Mitch Albom, American Writer

Family, Support, Love, Caring

"I tell you, families are definitely the training ground for forgiveness."

Anne Lamott, American Author

Family, Forgiveness, Training, Life

"Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds."

Victor Hugo, French Author

Family, Children, Deeds

"Right, except I'm not going to lie to my mom, because what kind of bastard lies to his own mother?"

John Green, American Author

Family, Honesty, Respect, Truth

"When we are thirsty, we drink the white waters of the pool, the sweetness of our mournful childhood."

Georg Trakl, Austrian Poet

Family, Childhood, Sweetness

"From behind Lissa, I heard Christian say, "Worst. Timing. Ever." Adrian studied Lissa and then looked at Christain sprawling on the bed on the far side of the suite. "Huh," Adrian said, letting himself in. "So that's how you're going to fix the family problem. Little Dragomirs. Good idea." Christian sat up and strolled toward them. "Yeah, that's exactly it. You're interrupting official Council business."

Richelle Mead, American Author

Family, Time, Problem, Business

"Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other."

Joseph Joubert, French Writer

Family, Love, Father, Fear

Explore more quotes by Satish Kumar

"We then came to the Soviet Union. One day we were walking and carrying our banner and distributing a few leaflets in Russian to people, and we met two women on the road."

Woman

"Kennedy had been assassinated a month or so before. So we walked to the grave of John Kennedy and ended our walking symbolically at the Arlington National Cemetery."

Reflection

"It became extremely important that we go and see the four heads of the governments, and the message was delivered, with the tea packets, to all these heads."

Politics

"So, at the age of nine, I became a monk, and from then on I was there practicing that kind of nonviolence."

Age

"One was a book I read by Mahatma Gandhi. In it was a passage where he said that religion, the pursuing of the inner journey, should not be separated from the pursuing of the outer and social journey, because we are not isolated beings."

Religion

"This gives us more time to attend the inner need."

Time

"Monks will have three begging bowls for their food: one for water, one for liquid food, one for dry food."

Food

"That was my childhood. I grew up with the monks, studying Sanskrit and meditating for hours in the morning and hours in the evening, and going once a day to beg for food."

Food

"With slight risk of exaggeration you could say that he walked almost every mile of the Indian land."

Politics

"If you can kill animals, the same attitude can kill human beings. The mentality is the same which exploits nature and which creates wars."

Attitude