T. S. Monk Quotes

Anybody talented in any way - they're called eccentric.

A number of girls of my acquaintance went to school to the nuns of the Congregational Nunnery, or Sisters of Charity, as they are sometimes called.

I played the wrong wrong notes.

I made the wrong mistakes

Everyone is a genius at being themselves

After you get stung, you can't get unstung no matter how much you whine about it.

We have two kids, my wife and myself.

Make the world better. Take the meanness out of people's hearts.

I needed sleep. Big squishy bunches of it. Soon.

I resisted the urge to pour mouthwash in my brain.

I was playing birthday parties. House-rent parties where they used to sell whisky during prohibition.

I'd go stupid collecting and counting my money.

I don't know where jazz is going. Maybe it's going to hell. You can't make anything go anywhere. It just happens.

Embodiment means we no longer say, I had this experience; we say, I am this experience.

Once you know the truth, you can’t ever go back and pick up your suitcase of lies. Heavier or not, the truth is yours now.

We become what we pay attention to.

I'm tired of carrying around the weight of the world. I'm just going to lay it down now. It's my time to die, and it's your time to live. Don't mess it up.

I compose my pieces with a formula that I created myself.

The manufacture of wax candles was another important branch of business in the nunnery.

We write to taste life twice," Anais Nin wrote, "in the moment and in retrospection.

The world will give you that once in awhile, a brief timeout; the boxing bell rings and you go to your corner, where somebody dabs mercy on your beat-up life.

The body knows things a long time before the mind catches up to them. I was wondering what my body knew that I didn't.

You have to find a mother inside yourself. We all do. Even if we already have a mother, we still have to find this part of ourselves inside

In a weird way I must have loved my little collection of hurts and wounds. They provided me with some real nice sympathy, with the feeling I was exceptional... What a special case I was.

Something deep in all of us yearns for God's beauty, and we can find it no matter where we are.

I always believed in being myself.

So I taught Sunday school and brought dishes to all manner of potlucks and tried to adjust the things I heard from the pulpit to my increasingly incongruent faith.

Curiosity is a great antidote to fear.

As artists, I think that one of the good qualities we have is that we're imaginative. We're resourceful. We like challenges.

There is no place so AWAKE and ALIVE as the edge of becoming.

Hey, rock dude, are you destroying the house? Causing mayhem? Who’s a ferocious gargoyle? Stoney’s a ferocious gargoyle.

It shocks me how I wish for...what is lost and cannot come back.

Night Owls is a fast, fun read that kept me turning the pages. Lauren M. Roy delivers a plot that zips, dialogue that zings, and a cast of characters you'll cheer for to the very end. Thumbs up!

Unraveling external selves and coming home to our real identity is the true meaning of soul work.

Sometimes, in order to say yes to what matters most, I must say no to good things.

Nothing is fair in this world. You might as well get that straight right now

Every living creature on the earth is special. You want to be the one that puts an end to one of them?

Where had I been that I didn't know about imaginary friends? I could see the point of it. How a lost part of yourself steps out and remind you who you could be with a little work.

And I was struck all at once how life was out there going through its regular courses, and I was suspended, waiting, caught in a terrible crevice between living my life and not living it.

To fashion an inner story of our pain carries us into the heart of it, which is where rebirth inevitably occurs.

You've got to figure out which end of the needle you're gon' be, the one that's fastened to the thread or the end that pierces the cloth.

The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters.

We were constantly hearing it repeated, that we must never again look upon ourselves as our own; but must remember, that we were solemnly and irrevocably devoted to God.

I often remembered also that I had been told, that we shall have as many devils biting us, if we go to hell, as we have unconfessed sins on our consciences.

I have, I think, afforded every opportunity that could be reasonably expected, to judge of my credibility.

When you start worrying about form, then you're not in the moment.

Yes, the more I go through life I realize that there's really no separation between practice and art at all. The two things more and more become one rather than two different aspects of my life.

Miles'd got killed if he hit me.

You are my everlasting home. Don't you ever be afraid. I am enough. We are enough.

Most people don't have any idea about all the complicated life going on inside a hive. Bees have a secret life we don't know anything about.