What a strange thing! to be alivebeneath cherry blossoms.
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Kobayashi Issa
Too lazy to be ambitious, I let the world take care of itself. Ten days' worth of rice in my bag;a bundle of twigs by the fireplace. Why chatter about delusion and enlightenment? Listening to the night rain on my roof, I sit comfortably, with...
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Unknown
Tokyo is bigger than Kumamoto. And Japan is bigger than Tokyo. And even bigger than Japan... Even bigger than Japan is the inside of your head. Don't ever surrender yourself ― not to Japan, not to anything. You may think that what you're doing is...
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Anonymous
Some nonreligious people are disgruntled by the word "faith, " feeling that it has no connection to them. But we all have faith. Broadly speaking, "faith" does not apply only to belief in the supernatural. We have faith in our life, for example, believing we...
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Kentetsu Takamori
What comes from the heart will go to the heart
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Renae LucasHall
More Quotes By Ruth Ozeki
I would like to think of my 'ignorance' less as a personal failing and more as a massive cultural trend, an example of doubling, of psychic numbing, that characterizes the end of the millennium. If we can’t act on knowledge, then we can’t survive without...
In my heart, I am American, and I believe I have a free will and can take charge of my own destiny.
We place such crazy importance on physical appearance in our image-obsessed culture, on youth and beauty to define our sense of self-worth, that aging, by default, becomes a kind of defect, something secret and corrosive and shameful.
By changing our history and our memory, they try to erase all our shame.
We're by-products of the mid-twentieth century", Oliver said. "Who isn't?
