From John Keats: “Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?”
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Quote of the day 07/19/25
From Basho: “In the end, without skill or talent, I’ve given myself over entirely to poetry. Po Chu-i labored at it until he nearly burst. Tu Fu starved rather than abandon it. Neither my intelligence nor my writing is comparable to such men. Nevertheless, in the end, we ALL live in phantom huts.”
Quote of the day 07/17/25
From Basho: “No matter where your interest lies, you will not be able to accomplish anything unless you bring your deepest devotion to it.”
Quote of the day 07/04/25
From Thomas Paine: “The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow.”
Quote of the day 06/30/25
From the Dhammapada: “He who holds back rising anger like a rolling chariot—him I call a real driver: other people are merely holding the reins.”
Quote of the day 06/28/25
From Jataka: “Now, therefore, it behooves me to examine into my faults; and if I find anything wrong in me, to put it away, and practice virtue only.”
Quote of the day 06/19/25
From the Sabbasava-sutta: “So soon as there springs up within him an angry, malicious thought, some sinful, wrong disposition, … he puts it away, removes it, destroys it, he makes it not to be.”
Quote of the day 06/15/25
From the Udanavarga: “Though a man conquer a thousand thousand men in battle, a greater conqueror still is he who conquers himself.”
Quote of the day 05/26/25
From Miyamoto Musashi: “You must understand that there is more than one path to the top of the mountain.”
Quote of the day 04/07/25
From the Hekiganrobu: “To meet with ill fortune is to meet with good fortune. To meet with submission is to meet with an enemy.”
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