I leave you, to go the road we all must go. The road I would choose, if only I could, is the other

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Murasaki Shikibu

If you are scorched earth, I will be warm rain

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Murasaki Shikibu

It is in general the unexplored that attracts us.

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Murasaki Shikibu

No art or learning is to be pursued halfheartedly...and any art worth learning will certainly reward more or less generously the effort made to study it.

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Murasaki Shikibu

farewell' is a monster among words, and never yet sounded kindly in any ear.

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Murasaki Shikibu

The world know it not; but you, Autumn, I confess it: your wind at night-fall stabs deep into my heart

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Murasaki Shikibu

Real things in the darkness seem no realer than dreams

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Murasaki Shikibu

You are here to remind me of someone I long for, and what is it you long for yourself? We must have been together in an earlier life, you and I.

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Murasaki Shikibu

"The universe is the scripture of Buddha, and all phenomena are its characters."

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Kūkai

"The Dharma is like water; it takes the shape of the vessel that contains it."

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Kūkai

"The mind is the source of all phenomena."

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Kūkai

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realise this, and you will find strength.

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Marcus Aurelius

We are more often frightened than hurt, and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

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Seneca

Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.

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Marcus Aurelius

True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

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Seneca

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

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Marcus Aurelius

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.

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Boethius

“Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body

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Seneca”

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

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Epictetus