"In Japan, I took part in a tea ceremony. You go into a small room, tea is served, and that's it really, except that everything is done with so much ritual and ceremony that a banal daily event is transformed into a moment of communion with the universe."

-- Okakura Kakuzo

#Japan Quotes #Perfection Quotes #Tea Quotes

“That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.”
“it is wrong to chide the novel for being fascinated by mysterious coincidences... but it is right to chide man for being blind to such coincidences in his daily life. For he thereby deprives his life a dimension of beauty.”
“Every time a significant discovery is being made one sets in motion a tremendous activity in laboratories and industrial enterprises throughout the world. It is like the ant who suddenly finds food and walks back to the anthill while sending out material called food attracting substance. The other ants follow the path immediately in order to benefit from the finding and continue to do so as long as the supply is rich.”
“he is both the source of my happiness and the one i want to share it with.”
“We can only change the world if we have a heart for the world and deliver the message for the world. We can only change the world if we evangelize the world.”
“Whenever someone says the word community, I want to reach for an oxygen mask.”
“When you clean up a city, you destroy it.”
“The only good excuse for not succeeding is DEATH! Unless you're trying to be a ghost. Then it's LIFE!”

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