Etiquette Quotes - Page 7

• All things are spiritual. It doesn't matter what you do or who you are or what kind of blue jeans you wear, or whether you wear an ochre robe or whether you're sober or asleep or dreaming. It's all the same.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Spiritual, Buddhist

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• Those who practice deserve your respect. If you respect them, you respect yourself. It's easy to be critical, but it does no good. What's important is to be supportive of all who practice.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Practice

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• Select companions who are striving for enlightenment. They all have their imperfections, certainly, but at least their attention is moving in the right direction.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Moving, Buddhism

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• To know that these are people who for a moment, in glory, in light, were true warriors, and you had the chance to associate with them, to live with them, to share with them, words and moments of power - this is the nature of spiritual study.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Buddhist, Buddhism

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• If we don't get violent with ourselves, castigate ourselves, ostracize ourselves and excommunicate ourselves because we didn't live up to the standards we set down for ourselves, then maybe we don't have to do that with other people.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, People

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• Your mantrum is the awareness of the dream - to enjoy and appreciate and have gratitude for all; neither to condemn nor to liberate, but to observe.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Gratitude, Buddhist

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• You need to search your awareness and consider the limitless possibilities of existence in all things and not be so narrow-minded in your self-discovery.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Discovery

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• As Buddhist monks, our task is to bring ourselves resolutely more and more into light, to forgive and forget, to forget those who create problems for us because to remember them is only to keep problems is mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Light

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• A private should preserve a respectful attitude toward his superiors, and should seldom or never proceed so far as to offer suggestions to his general in the field. If the battle is not being conducted to suit him, it is better for him to resign. By the etiquette of war, it is permitted to none below the rank of newspaper correspondent to dictate to the general in the field.

  Mark Twain

  Attitude, War, Advice

  Mark Twain (1992). “Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays, Volume 1: 1852-1890”, p.1015, Library of America

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• In proceeding to the dining-room, the gentleman gives one arm to the lady he escorts--it is unusual to offer both.

  Lewis Carroll

  Giving, Gentleman, Rooms

  Lewis Carroll (2015). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales”, p.971, Race Point Pub

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• As a general rule, do not kick the shins of the opposite gentleman under the table, if personally unaquainted with him; your pleasantry is liable to be misunderstood--a circumstance at all times unpleasant.

  Lewis Carroll

  Opposites, Gentleman, Misunderstood

  Lewis Carroll (1996). “The Complete Illustrated Lewis Carroll”, p.1114, Wordsworth Editions

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• Miss Temminnick, you are in receipt of the highest marks we have ever given in a six-month review. Your mind seems designed for espionage. Nevertheless, you veer away from perfect in matters of etiquette. Do not let these marks go to your head; there are many girls at this school who are better than you. Our biggest concern is what you get up to when we are not watching. Because, if nothing else, this test has told us you are probably spying on us, as well as everyone around you.

  Gail Carriger

  Girl, School, Perfect

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• The basic meaning of etiquette is to be quick at both the beginning and end and tranquil in the middle.

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  War, Beginnings And Ends, Middle

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo (2015). “Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai”, p.61, Xist Publishing

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• I wrote to Mr. McEnroe, Senior. I said: "Here is the sentence once written by the immortal Bobby Jones. I thought you might like to have it done in needlepoint and mounted in a suitable frame to hang over Little John's bed. It says, The rewards of golf - and of life, too, I expect - are worth very little if you don't play the game by the etiquette as well as by the rules." I never heard from Mr. McEnroe, Senior. I can only conclude that the letter went astray.

  Alistair Cooke

  Senior, Golf, Games

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• The cheese and wine party has the form of friendship without the warmth and devotion. It is a device either for getting rid of social obligations hurriedly en mass, or for making overtures towards more serious social relationships, as in the etiquette of whoring.

  Brooks Atkinson

  Party, Wine, Serious

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• Survival has its own etiquette.

  Janet Morris

  Survival, Strategy

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.5, Paradise Publishing

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• Marriage is survived just on the basis of ordinary etiquette, day in and day out. Also cooking together helps a lot.

  Jim Harrison

  Marriage, Cooking, Together

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• Death is a dignitary who when he comes announced is received with formal manifestations of respect, even by those most familiar with him. In the code of military etiquette silence and fixity are forms of deference

  Ambrose Bierce

  Military, Silence, Form

  Ambrose Bierce (2015). “Tales of Soldiers and Civilians”, p.11, Ambrose Bierce

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• In the esoteric teachings, a transference process takes place between teacher and student where knowledge is actually transmitted from one to the other. This requires that the student be receptive.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhist, Teaching

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• Without balance and wisdom, power becomes very destructive. It creates unhappiness and not happiness. To simply see a teacher to gain power is a mistake.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhist, Mistake

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• You are a part of everything. You are like the guys in the bar and that gal on the corner with the red dress. We are a little bit of everyone. Let's not get too fancy here.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Guy

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• Faithfulness, faith, all of the words that so few people live, you must live. Only then are you worthy of immortality.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, People

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• You must be accommodating with your teacher. You must have a sense of humor about your teacher and the impossible things they ask you to do.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhist, Buddhism

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• Self-honesty is absolutely necessary in the practice of Buddhism.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Honesty, Buddhism

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• As you become more aware of your own imperfections, you simultaneously become more aware of the overall perfection of the universe.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Perfection

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