The Cat Who Taught Zen Quotes

“What we want is seldom what we need. And what we need is almost never what we want.”
― James Norbury, The Cat Who Taught Zen

“It is better to begin the journey, make some mistakes and correct your course, than to wait until everything is perfect and never even start”
― James Norbury, The Cat Who Taught Zen

“Wherever we go, we are our own companion. And that is why we must try to be a good friend to ourselves and treat ourselves with gentleness. After all, we are the one we spend the most time with.”
― James Norbury, The Cat Who Taught Zen

“Many of us feel hesitant to start something new and tend to wait until the time is right… but I have learned to give myself permission to start messily with no expectation and somehow,
each time,
things just seem to work themselves out.”
― James Norbury, The Cat Who Taught Zen

“If you could take one thing away from this book, I would ask you to try and
remember that good things often come out of seemingly bad things”
― James Norbury, The Cat Who Taught Zen

“I once heard someone say, it was not the journey or the destination that mattered most, but the company.”
― James Norbury, The Cat Who Taught Zen

“If something isn’t right, just telling your friend can make it seem better, even though they might not know how to fix it.”
― James Norbury, The Cat Who Taught Zen