| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 4e90050 | "...for you know that soft is stronger than hard, water stronger than rock, love stronger than force." Vesadeva to Siddartha" | monasticism siddhartha-gautama siddhartha buddhism | Hermann Hesse | |
| d26e5cd | "My nation, as all nations, is becoming a land without peace, without thought, without mind, Madam Abbess. We are suffocating our spirits in commercial and material things. This is not envy," said Mr. Konishi earnestly. "I am a rich man, with much business, so I have succeeded in all these things, but I know that they are empty." | fiction monasticism historical-fiction | Rumer Godden | |
| 57a6c06 | The human heart Is unknowable. But in my birthplace The flowers still smell The same as always. | fiction monasticism historical-fiction | Rumer Godden |