For a woman who lived in the dark it was enough if she had a faint, white face -a full body was unnecessary.

Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides.

The heart of mine is only one, it cannot be known by anybody but myself.

Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty.

The older we get the more we seem to think that everything was better in the past.

And isn't it better really to leave things only hinted at?

Yet for better or worse we love things that bear the marks of grime, soot, and weather, and we love the colors and the sheen that call to mind the past that made them.

We delight in the mere sight of the delicate glow of fading rays clinging to the surface of a dusky wall, there to live out what little life remains to them.

Each worm to his taste; some prefer to eat nettles.

We Orientals find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and darkness which that thing provides.

Today, I will look around & enjoy all the beautiful things that are around me rather than yearn for things that are beyond my control & become miserable.-RVM

The world is progressing. One man cannot slow it, no matter how determined he is."He stopped in the

The tourist transports his own values and demands to his destinations and implants them like an infectious disease, decimating whatever values existed before.

For every difficulty that supposedly stops a person from succeeding there are thousands who have had it a lot worse and have succeeded anyway. So can you.

Dare to accomplish the things you've only dreamed about doing. If you can dream it, you can do it.

You meet people, you part ways, sometimes you cross paths again. Mostly, you don't.

I'm not really part of that 'L.A. thing' or that celebrity culture. I'm more like someone who observes it, and I can't ever imagine being like that.

To be believed make the truth unbelievable.

The most tedious of all discourses are on the subject of the Supreme Being.

No matter how smart you are, you spend much of your day being an idiot.