“Looking back on months and years of intimacy, to feel that your friend, while you still remember the moving words you exchanged, is yet growing distant and living in a world apart—all this is sadder far than partings brought by death.” FriendshipMelancholyParting Book:Essays in Idleness: The Tsurezuregusa of Kenkō Source: Essays in Idleness: The Tsurezuregusa of Kenkō
“[Life] is like a go player who, not wasting a move, gets the jump on his opponent by sacrificing a small advantage to achieve a great one. It is easy, of course, to sacrifice three stones in order to get ten. The hard thing is to sacrifice ten stones in order to gain eleven.” LifeSuccessSacrifice Author:Yoshida Kenkō
“I have relinquished all that ties me to the world, but the one thing that still haunts me is the beauty of the sky” LifeNatureSky Book:A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees Source: A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees
“A certain recluse monk once remarked, ‘I have relinquished all that ties me to the world, but the one thing that still haunts me is the beauty of the sky.” BuddhismJapanese LiteratureBeauty In Nature Book:Essays in Idleness: The Tsurezuregusa of Kenkō Source: Essays in Idleness: The Tsurezuregusa of Kenkō