SaigyÅ famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Every single thing changes and is changing always in this world. Yet with the same light the moon goes on shining.
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This place of mine never is entered by humans come for conversation, only by the mute moon's light shafts that slip in between the trees.
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Whatever it is, / I cannot understand it, / although gratitude / stubbornly overcomes me / until I'm reduced to tears.
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I'd like to divide myself in order to see, among these mountains, each and every flower of every cherry tree.
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Limitations gone: Since my mind fixed on the moon, Clarity and serenity Make something for which There's no end in sight.
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Now seen...now gone, The butterfly flits in and out Through fence-hung flowers; But a life lived so close to them I envy...though it's here and gone.
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Tightly held by rocks Through winter, the ice today Begins to come undone: A way-seeker also is the water, Melting, murmuring from the moss.
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The cherries' only fault: the crowds that gather when they bloom
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There, like the wind through woods in riot, Through him the gale of life blew high; The tree of man was never quiet: Then 'twas the Roman, now 'tis I.
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Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.
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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.
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Even God cannot change the past.
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White in the moon the long road lies.
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To use a Southern euphemism, our space program has been snake-bit.
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When you look at the Moon, you think, ‘I’m really small. What are my problems?’ It sets things into perspective. We should all look at the Moon a bit more often.
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We knew it was going to be difficult to get to the moon. We didn't know how difficult.
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In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
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I am in awe of the things you've been put through and the fact you can still light up a room when you walk in. When I look at you I see life. I see joy. I see my future.
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