"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."

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Source : Yamamoto Tsunetomo (2006). “Hagakure: Selections: Or, the Way of the Samurai”, p.38, ReadHowYouWant.com

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

#Flower Quotes #Important Quotes #Use Quotes

“I'm inspired by how miraculous some of the simplest and most natural aspects of life can be the greatest sources of healing and transformation.”
“I'm so sorry, Henri," I whisper in his ear. I close my eyes. "I love you. I wouldn't have missed a second of it, either. Not for anything," I whisper. "I'm going to take you back yet. Somehow I am going to get you back to Lorien. We always joked about it but you were my father, the best father I could have ever asked for. I'll never forget you, not for a minute for as long as I live. I love you, Henri. I always did.”
“There are always new places to go fishing. For any fisherman, there's always a new place, always a new horizon”
“John Lennon was very irreverent and very intelligent.”
“The approach is not to limit the choice, but to provide a broader choice. It's appropriate to have choices that are indulgent and others that are better for you.”
“There were details like clothing, hair styles and the fragile objects that hardly ever survive for the archaeologist-musical instruments, bows and arrows, and body ornaments depicted as they were worn... No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely”
“No individual can achieve worthy goals without accepting accountability for his or her own actions.”

Source : Dan Miller (2008). “No More Dreaded Mondays: Ignite Your Passion - and Other Revolutionary Ways to Discover Your True Calling at Work”, p.51, Crown Business
“Beauty is to enthuse us for work, and work is to raise us up”

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