Even now that he is gone I have him still, in the richness of my memories. I've lived my life again just telling it to you.
We all know that a winter scene, though it may be covered over one day, with even the trees dressed in shawls of snow, will be unrecognizable the following spring. Yet I had never imagined such a thin...
It's your duty to use what influence you have, unless you want to drift through life like a fish belly-up on the streamI wish I could believe that life really is something more than a stream that carr...
Incluso las rocas terminan erosionándose con la lluvia.
If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was.
Every man has his destiny. But who needs to to go to a fortune-teller to find it? Do I go to a chef to find out if I'm hungry?Nobu
I've lived my life again just telling it to you.
If we rub a fabric too often, it will quickly grow threadbare; and Nobu’s words had rasped against me so much, I could no longer maintain that finely lacquered surface Mameha had always counseled me t...
Some people have difficulty telling the difference between something great and something they've simply heard of.
Nothing in life is ever as simple as we imagine.
When I was in the street throwing a beanbag with the other children and Mr. Tanaka happened to stroll out of the seafood company, I always stopped what I was doing to watch him.I lay there on that sli...
Every man has his destiny. But who needs to go to a fortune-teller to find it? Do I go to a chef to find out if I'm hungry?
What an unbearable sorrow it would be, to realized I'd never really tasted to things I'd eaten, or seen the places I'd been. What life would I have? I would be like the dancer who had practiced since...
Now I know that our world is no more permanent than a wave rising on the ocean. Whatever our struggles and triumphs, however we may suffer them, all too soon they bleed into a wash, just like watery i...
My existence was as unstable as a stream, changing in every way; but the moth was like a piece of stone, changing not at all.
If you keep your destiny in mind, every moment in life becomes an opportunity for moving closer to it.
Of course, a sign doesn't mean anything unless you know how to interpret it.
Nowadays many people seem to believe their lives are entirely a matter of choice; but in my day we viewed ourselves as pieces of clay that forever show the fingerprints of everyone who has touched the...
But, Mameha-san, I don’t want kindness!Don’t you? I thought we all wanted kindness. Perhaps what you mean is that you want something more than kindness. And that is something you’re in no position to...
Passion can quickly slip over into jealousy, or even hatred.
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