What is your
Original Nature,
Snowman?
Natsume Soseki
The best way out is always through.
Robert Frost
He did each single thing as if he did nothing else.
Charles Dickens
Would that life were like the shadow cast by a wall or a tree,
but it is like the shadow of a bird in flight.
Haggadah
In rain during a dark night, enter that darkness.
Shiva
The wind blows hard among the pines toward the beginning of an endless past.
Listen: you’ve heard everything.
Shinkichi Takahashi
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
Ludwig Borne
I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of night without thinking that the night pleases because it surppesses idle details, just as our memory does.
Jorge Luis Borges
All this world is in your own mind.
Zen Saying
The birch tree is all over green in small leaf, more light and elegant than when it is full out. It bends to the breezes, as if for the love of its own delightful motions.
Henry David Thoreau
The bird’s delirium does not interest the trees.
Henri Michaux
Life was to be a search, or nothing!
But it was the fear that it was nothing
that drove me forward. Every encounter
was an encounter with myself.
John Le Carre
We accept the graceful falling
Of mountain cherry blossoms,
But it is much harder for us
To fall away from our own
Attachment to the world.
Rengetsu
Now, when the fight begins with himself, a man’s worth something.
Robert Browning
Sayings remain meaningless until they are embodied in habits.
Kahlil Gibran