Mizutani Masako Quotes & Sayings

Ah, deserve," sighed Kindwind. "The notion of deserved and undeserved is a fancy. Knowing both life and death, we endeavor to impose worth and meaning upon our deeds, and thereby to comfort our fear of impermanence. We choose to imagine that our lives merit continuance. Mayhap all sentience shares a similar fancy. Mayhap the Earth itself, being sentient in its fashion, shares it. Nonetheless it is a fancy. A wider gaze does not regard us in that wise. The stars do not. Perhaps the Creator does not. The larger truth is merely that all things end. By that measure, our fancies cannot be distinguished from dust. "For this reason, Giants love tales. Our iteration of past deeds and desires and discoveries provides the only form of permanence to which mortal life can aspire. That such permanence is a chimera does not lessen its power to console. Joy is in the ears that hear. — Stephen R. Donaldson

I can transform my entire life. The universe is an unbroken, continuous fabric within which I can create and intend my destiny. — Deepak Chopra

The energy of youth with the experience of age is a lethal combination. — Murad S. Shah

A fair feeld ful of folk fond I ther bitwene -Of alle manere of men, the meene and the riche,Werchynge and wandrynge as the world asketh. — William Langland

The left puts a lot of faith in a lot of people in the past that were dismal failures that they think are the greatest people who ever lived. — Rush Limbaugh

Mortification is the soul's vigorous opposition to self, wherein sincerity is most evident. — John Owen