"Nothing could have survived our life."

-- Zelda Fitzgerald

“I could not help but think that somewhere along the way we had missed what was radical about our faith and replaced it with what is comfortable.”
“Not to love is, psychically, spiritually, to die. To live for yourself alone, hoarding your life for your own sake, is in almost every sense that matters to reduce your life to a life hardly worth the living, and thus to lose it.”
“There's a responsibility in being a person. It's more than just taking up space where air would be.”
“Shopkeepers are not bankers.”
“On Earth, among millions of lineages or organisms and perhaps 50 billion speciation events, only one led to high intelligence ; this makes me believe its utter improbablity.”
“The faster you go, the more students you leave behind. It doesn't matter how much or how fast you teach. The true measure is how much students have learned.”
“In the Kamigata area, they have a sort of tiered lunchbox they use for a single day when flower viewing. Upon returning, they throw them away, trampling them underfoot. The end is important in all things.”

Source : Yamamoto Tsunetomo (2006). “Hagakure: Selections: Or, the Way of the Samurai”, p.38, ReadHowYouWant.com
“I have never painted a self-portrait. I am less interested in myself as a subject for a painting than I am in other people, above all women... There is nothing special about me. I am a painter who paints day after day from morning to night... Who ever wants to know something about me... ought to look carefully at my pictures.”

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