Life is evanescent, but left to itself it rarely fails to offer some consolation.

- Ruth Ozeki

I think that if we don't learn to inhabit other people's perspectives, then we're never going to understand why people do what they do.

- Ruth Ozeki

I have a pretty good memory, but memories are time beings, too, like cherry blossoms or ginkgo leaves; for a while they are beautiful, and then they …

- Ruth Ozeki

Everything in the universe is constantly changing, and nothing stays the same, and we must understand how quickly time flows by if we are to wake up …

- Ruth Ozeki

Life is fleeting. Don't waste a single moment of your precious life. Wake up now! And now! And now!

- Ruth Ozeki

My mind is like a gyre and odd juxtapositions happen.

- Ruth Ozeki

But in the time it takes to say now, now is already over. It's already then.

- Ruth Ozeki

Do all kids have to worry about their parents’ mental health? The way society is set up, parents are supposed to be the grown-up ones and look after …

- Ruth Ozeki

The wondrous thing about nature, her gift to us, is her wanton promiscuity. She reproduces herself with abandon, with teeming infinite generosity.

- Ruth Ozeki