Karate Kid, The.

No such thing as bad student, only bad teacher.

Karl, George. Sonics

It's kind of like when you're in hell. What's the difference if you're in the north part or the south part of hell?

Kennedy, John F.

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

King, Martin Luther Jr.

Returning violence for violence multiples violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Kornfield, Jack.

A guru sat down to worship every evening, only to be disturbed by the cat who lived at the ashram. So he ordered that the cat be tied up during the evening worship. After the guru died, the cat continued to be tied up during the evening worship. And when the cat died, anther cat was brought to the ashram so that it could be duly tied up during the evening worship. Centuries later, learned treatises were written by the guru's scholarly disciples on the liturgical significance of tying up a cat while worship is performed.

After his enlightenment, the Buddha passed a man on the road who was struck by the extraordinary radiance and peacefulness of his presence. The man stopped and asked, "My friend, what are you? Are you a celestial being or a god?" "No," said the Buddha. "Well then, are you some kind of magician or wizard?" Again the Buddha answered, "No." "Well, my friend, what then are you?" The Buddha replied, "I am awake."

Kretzmer, Herbert. Les Miserables: "I Dreamed a Dream"

I dreamed a dream in time gone by
When hope was high
And life worth living
I dreamed that love would never die
I dreamed that God would be forgiving.

Then I was young and unafraid
And dreams were made and used
And wasted
There was no ransom to be paid
No song unsung
No wine untasted.


But the tigers come at night
With their voices soft as thunder
As they tear your hope apart
As they turn your dream to shame.


But there are dreams that cannot be
And there are storms
We cannot weather ...

Kübler-Ross, Elizabeth

People are like stained-glass windows.
They sparkle and shine when the sun is out,
but when the darkness sets in,
their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

Kukei (eighth-century Zen master)

A hand moves, and the fire's whirling takes different shapes.
...all things change when we do.
The first word, Ah, blossomed into all others.
Each of them is true.

Kundera, Milan. Slowness

The man hunched over his motorcycle can focus only on the present instant of his flight; he is caught in a fragment of time cut off from both the past and the future; he is wrenched from the continuity of time … in other words, he is in a state of ecstasy; in that state he is unaware of his age, his wife, his children, his worries, and so he has no fear, because the source of fear is in the future, and a person freed of the future has nothing to fear.

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