One should write not unskillfully in the running hand, be able to sing in a pleasing voice and keep good time to music; and, lastly, a man should not refuse a little wine when it is pressed upon him.
There is nothing finer than to be alone with nothing to distract you. - Yoshida Kenko
There is nothing finer than to be alone with nothing to distract you.
- Yoshida Kenko
Life's most precious gift is uncertainty. - Yoshida Kenko
Life's most precious gift is uncertainty.
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
In everything, no matter what it may be, uniformity is undesirable. Leaving something incomplete makes it interesting, and gives one the feeling that…
Blossoms are scattered by the wind and the wind cares nothing but the blossoms of the heart no wind can touch. - Yoshida Kenko
Blossoms are scattered by the wind and the wind cares nothing but the blossoms of the heart no wind can touch.
Leave undone whatever you hesitate to do. - Yoshida Kenko
Leave undone whatever you hesitate to do.
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
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…
If life were eternal, all interest and anticipation would vanish. It is uncertainty which lends it fascination. - Yoshida Kenko
If life were eternal, all interest and anticipation would vanish. It is uncertainty which lends it fascination.
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
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…
... For such as truly love the world, a thousand years would fade like the dream of one night. - Yoshida Kenko
... For such as truly love the world, a thousand years would fade like the dream of one night.
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