While I wait for…

IMAGE: While I wait for you, / My lord, lost in this longing, / Suddenly there comes / A stirring of my window blind: / The autumn wind is blowing. //

While I wait for you, / My lord, lost in this longing, / Suddenly there comes / A stirring of my window blind: / The autumn wind is blowing. // – Princess Nukata [Nukata no Ōkimi] (c.630? – c.690?) –… More »

Where there is a…

IMAGE: Where there is a will, there is a way.

Where there is a will, there is a way. / Do and it will be done; don’t do and it will not be done: if something is not done, that is because no one did it. – Uesugi Yôzan [Uesugi… More »

No man can draw…

IMAGE: No man can draw a free breath who does not share with other men a common and disinterested ideal. Life has tought us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.

No man can draw a free breath who does not share with other men a common and disinterested ideal. Life has tought us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the… More »

What is done can’t…

IMAGE: What is done can't be undone.

What is done can’t be undone. – William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616): Macbeth / It is too late to lock the stable when the horse has been stolen. / A good thing is known when it is lost. More »

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