![IMAGE: Treasure every encounter, for it will never recur. [Once-in-a-lifetime encounter.] / Opportunity knocks but once. [Opportunity knocks only once.] / Opportunity seldom knocks twice.](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/tea-680540_640-200x133.jpg)
Treasure every encounter, for it will never recur. [Once-in-a-lifetime encounter.] – YAMANOUE no Sôji (1544 – 90): Yamanoue no Soji ki [The Record of Soji YAMANOUE] “Ten Elements of Preparedness for Tea Practitioners” / Opportunity knocks but once. [Opportunity knocks… More »
![IMAGE: The Child is father of the Man. [The Child is the father of the Man.] / A leopard cannot change his spots.](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/dad-909510_640-200x110.jpg)
The Child is father of the Man. [The Child is the father of the Man.] – William Wordsworth (1770 – 1850): My Heart Leaps Up / A leopard cannot change his spots. More »
Know him? I know him so well that I haven’t spoken to him for ten years. – Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900) More »
Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together. – Robert Redford (1936 – ) More »
Everybody had a hard year; / Everybody had a good time. // – John Lennon (1940 – 80); Paul McCartney (1942 – ) “The Beatles”: I’ve Got a Feeling More »
You can live a lie until you die. / One thing you can’t hide / Is when you’re crippled inside. // – John Lennon (1940 – 80): Crippled Inside More »
A man has always to be busy with his thoughts if anything is to be accomplished. – Antonie [Anton/Antoni/Antony] van Leeuwenhoek (1632 – 1723) More »
Even in small matters it is best to have an experienced guide. – Yoshida Kenkô (1283? – 1352?): Tsure-zure Gusa Section 52 More »
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. – Victor Hugo (1802 – 85) More »
A man always has two reasons for doing anything — a good reason and the real reason. – J. P. [John Pierpont] Morgan (1837 – 1913) More »
A red sun hath water…
常に心せよ、流れに…
シーザーの妻は疑惑を…
Don't just dream…
さよなら…寂しいよ…
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