Aritomo Quotes

#1. entire cottage industry centered just on Aritomo-sensei,

Tan Twan Eng

#2. It was odd how Aritomo's life seemed to glance off mine; we were like two leaves falling from a tree, touching each other now and again as they spiraled to the forest floor.

Tan Twan Eng

#3. My eyes wondered from one end of the mountains to the other. 'Do you think they go on forever?'
'The mountains?' Aritomo said, as though he had been asked that question before. 'They fade away. Like all things.

Tan Twan Eng

#4. A garden is composed of a variety of clocks, Aritomo had once told me. Some of them run faster than the others, and some of them move slower than wee can ever perceive. I only understood this fully long after I had been his apprentice.

Tan Twan Eng

#5. When we eat mindfully, we consume exactly what we need to keep our bodies, our minds, and the Earth healthy. When we practice like this, we reduce suffering for ourselves and for others.

Nhat Hanh

#6. I think people understand things different when they get older. It's not a question of getting soft, or seeing things in the gray areas instead of black and white. I really believe I'm just understanding things different. Better.

Jeff Lindsay

#7. I was in the hockey team in school, played football. One of the challenges for me was to make the team feel better. It helped me evolve, so batting at different positions was never a problem.

Rahul Dravid

#8. All the men of wealth should remember that everybody in a community has got, in some way, to be supported. I want to see them so that they can support themselves by their own labor.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#9. There's always only one reality.

Haruki Murakami

#10. Genius is that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates.

Samuel Johnson

#11. I believe in God, but I don't think you have to go crazy to prove it.

Fannie Flagg

#12. Lawyers do not mix with diplomacy.

Charles Stross

#13. Don't be disappointed if the whole world is against you, maybe it is because you are a tough ass.

M.F. Moonzajer

#14. I really do love being outdoors - I mean, you'd never think it in my high heels and pencil skirt! But I really do miss the smell of hay and farms, and I like milking a cow.

Christina Hendricks

#15. One doesn't simply glut oneself on blood.

Anne Rice

#16. She knew that this was happiness, this was living as she had always wished to live.

Daphne Du Maurier

#17. Why must this be so mortifying? Oh, that's right. Because its my life.

Tessa Dare

#18. I am pro-choice, but I don't consider that inconsistent at all with pro-life - there's no way that having an abortion, ever, is an easy decision, and it more often errs on the side of absolutely wrenching, not to mention physically debilitating.

Rachel Sklar

#19. The wishes of our hearts are weapons that can be used against us.

Cassandra Clare