Passion afire

Passion afire,
Any age
is a good age.

"Time slowly chips away ...."

Time slowly chips away at life. People don’t just die when their time comes. They gradually die away, from the inside. And finally the day comes when you have to settle accounts. Nobody can escape it. People have to pay the price for what they’ve received.

Haruki Murakami

"Where my caravan has rested ...."

Where my caravan has rested, flowers I leave you on the grass.

Monica Dickens

"That which God said to the rose ....:

That which God said to the rose,

And caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty,

He said to my heart,

And made it a hundred times more beautiful.

Rumi

"A man who wastes his time ...."

A man who wastes his time doing useless things is either a fool or a knave.  Many things must be done, like it or not, for your country or lord, and they leave you little time of your own.  Consider: for his own welfare a man has no choice but to labor so he may secure food, clothing, and shelter.  Man’s daily necessities do not go beyond these three.  When he can live peacefully, neither hungry nor cold nor buffeted by the wind or rain, he is happy.  But all men are prey to sickness, and when sickness strikes, the pains are hard to bear; the healing art should not be forgotten. Adding medicine gives four essentials.  If a man needs but cannot obtain them, he is poor; if he lacks none of the four, he is rich.  If one seeks to obtain more than these four, it is extravagance.  Why should anyone who is modest in his demands for these four ever feel that he has not enough?

Kenko

"The tree which moves some to tears ...."

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the Eyes of others only a Green thing that stands in the way.  Some see Nature all Ridicule and Deformity .... and some scarce see Nature at all.  But to the Eyes of the Man of Imagination, Nature is Imagination itself.

William Blake