Neither you nor I can know your destiny. You may never know it! Destiny isn't always like a party at the end of the evening. Sometimes it's nothing more than struggling through life from day to day.
If you keep your destiny in mind, every moment in life becomes an opportunity for moving closer to it.
Finally the homeless eel marked its territory, I suppose, and the Doctor lay heavily upon me, moist with sweat.
The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains.
The corridor couldn't have smelled more strongly of fish guts if we had actually been inside a fish.
Since the day I’d left Yoroido, I’d done nothing but worry that every turn of life’s wheel would bring yet another obstacle into my path; and of course, it was the worrying and the struggle that had a...
I'd done nothing but worry that every turn of life's wheel would bring yet another obstacle into my path; and of course, it was the worrying and the struggle that had always made life so vividly real...
I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world.
I wasn’t thanking him for the coin, or even for the trouble he’d taken in stopping to help me. I was thanking him for... well,for something I’m not sure I can explain even now. For showing me that som...
At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of melancholy.
You cannot say to the sun, or to the rain, To a man, geisha can only be half a wife. We are the wives of nightfall. And yet, to learn kindness after so much unkindness, to understand that a little g...
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...
We none of us find as much kindness in this world as we should.
Sadness was a very heavy thing.
Sadness was a very heavy thing. My body weighed twice what it had only a moment earlier.
It was what we Japanese called the onion life, peeling away a layer at a time and crying all the while.
Isn’t there one thing I can ask of you that you won’t disregard?. . . . You could just reply, Yes, Baron, and be done with it.' Yes, Baron.
I stumbled out into the courtyard to try to flee my misery, but of course we can never flee the misery that is within us.
Here's the thing: this eel spends its entire life trying to find a home, and what do you think women have inside them? Caves, where the eels like to live...when they find a cave they like, the wriggle...
Така еден ден, пред многу години, му турав саке на еден човек кој, така патем, случајно, спомена дека пред една недела бил во Јороидо. Боже, се почуствував како птица кога ќе го прелета океанот и ќе с...