There is nothing finer than to be alone with nothing to distract you.

- Yoshida Kenko

Life's most precious gift is uncertainty.

- Yoshida Kenko

In everything, no matter what it may be, uniformity is undesirable. Leaving something incomplete makes it interesting, and gives one the feeling that…

- Yoshida Kenko

Leave undone whatever you hesitate to do.

- Yoshida Kenko

If life were eternal, all interest and anticipation would vanish. It is uncertainty which lends it fascination.

- Yoshida Kenko

If you must take care that your opinions do not differ in the least from those of the person with whom you are talking, you might just as well be alo…

- Yoshida Kenko

Blossoms are scattered by the wind and the wind cares nothing but the blossoms of the heart no wind can touch.

- Yoshida Kenko

Are we to look at cherry blossoms only in full bloom, the moon only when it is cloudless? To long for the moon while looking on the rain, to lower t…

- Yoshida Kenko

... For such as truly love the world, a thousand years would fade like the dream of one night.

- Yoshida Kenko