harmony

The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool, it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.

Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy.

Like the first whiff of burning incense, or like the taste of one's first cup of saké, there is in love that moment when all its power is felt.

A problem isn't finished just because you've found the right answer.

If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.

It takes a person of great care and insight to watch for any abnormality in the green grass even while it grows abundantly and healthily.

As with most of life's problems, this one can be solved by a box of pure radiation.

Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

Memory is a snare, pure and simple. It alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present.

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

Sometimes life is merely a matter of coffee and whatever intimacy a cup of coffee afford.

All men contain several men inside them, and most of us bounce from one self to another without ever knowing who we are.

You must never behave as if your life belongs to a man. Do you hear me? Aunty Ifeka said. 'Your life belongs to you and you alone.

No matter what sort of story it was, she made it special. Her voice, her timing, her pacing were all flawless. She captured her listener’s attention, tantalized him, drove him to ponder and speculate, and then, in the end, gave him precisely what he’d been seeking.