“The teacher is a needle, the disciple is as thread. You must practice constantly.”
Source: "The Book of Five Rings (Go Rin no Sho)" Military Strategy by Miyamoto Musashi w/ How to use "Read to Me" - The Way of the Samurai Warrior and Bushido ... (CLS 006) -
“It's very easy to find happiness. Just grab a bottle of your favorite drink, devour foods that give you so much comfort and stress-relief, go for a run (happy hormones), or watch an NBA championship game at ringside! It's as instant as microwaveable foods! But joy is a different thing. Joy takes time to build, but it's worth the time. And one of the best ways to find joy in life is by discovering and living out our purpose - the reason why we've been put on this Earth! There's something about being in one's purpose and living it out.”
Source: Ikigai: The Japanese Life Philosophy
“Beauty is hidden in the most unappreciated places and it simply takes an open and appreciative heart to find it.”
Source: Wabi Sabi: The Japanese Art of Impermanence. Nothing Lasts, Nothing is Finished, Nothing is Perfect
“Curious how a man often calendared his glory and grief with a woman for asterisk.”
Source: But for the Lovers
“The name itself, Carcosa, sounds like a secret code or something…”
Source: Peruvian Nights
“As Carcosa crumbled away, it was like the end of an era. That mysterious glow around it faded, leaving just traces of what used to be. It felt like a story within the story. The name Carcosa, which used to sound like some secret code, now just hangs in the air like a faint memory.”
Source: Peruvian Nights
“While I was still gasping, two sickly conjured suns rose: behind, I was relieved to note, the black domes and twisted, monolithic towers.”
Source: On Safari in R'lyeh and Carcosa with Gun and Camera
“A depressed person lacks the energy to move forward.”
“I want to make you happy. And yet when you walk in that aisle to meet him and join yourself forever you will walk of the invisible shards of my heart, Tessa.”
“The peach gown she'd chosen was the color of the sunrise, the rippling watered silk seeming to subtly change from rose to pink to nearly orange in different lights. She'd fallen in love with it at once.”
Source: Duke of Desire