Toshiharu Ryokan Quotes & Sayings

We have to undo the millions of little white lies that America told itself and the world aboutthe American Black man. — John Oliver Killens

Let me give up the need to know why things happen as they do. I will never know and constant wondering is constant suffering. — Caroline Myss

Raise thy head, Handmaiden of Orion, thou has borne thyself well thus far. — Robin Jarvis

One of the main benefits of spending time in nature is stress reduction. — Richard Louv

I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding. — Erica Jong

The Something"

Here come my night thoughts
On crutches,
Returning from studying the heavens.
What they thought about
Stayed the same,
Stayed immense and incomprehensible.

My mother and father smile at each other
Knowingly above the mantel.
The cat sleeps on, the dog
Growls in his sleep.
The stove is cold and so is the bed.

Now there are only these crutches
To contend with.
Go ahead and laugh, while I raise one
With difficulty,
Swaying on the front porch,
While pointing at something
In the gray distance.

You see nothing, eh?
Neither do I, Mr. Milkman.
I better hit you once or twice over the head
With this fine old prop,
So you don't go off muttering

I saw something! — Charles Simic

I felt a bit bookish, cut off from life. — Ray Bradbury

I was a big fan of Indiana Jones; then I realized he was kind of a fake hero. The real heroes are the people who work hard and do their stuff right, like firefighters and policemen. — Nathan Gamble

Love is self-serving - we do all sorts of things for our own comfort and call it love. But revenge is an intimate thing, don't you think? Would you be willing to enact another persons vengeance? — Kathleen Tessaro

I wouldn't know how I would have coped with The Beatles' sort of fame. — Noel Redding

Sometimes I do wonder what college would have been like. But I made my decision. — Kobe Bryant

Without my attempts in natural science, I should never have learned to know mankind such as it is. In nothing else can we so closely approach pure contemplation and thought, so closely observe the errors of the senses and of the understanding, the weak and strong points of character. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

As much as we pump iron and we run to build our strength up, we need to build our mental strength up ... so we can focus ... so we can be in concert with one another. — Phil Jackson