“The Japanese think it strange we paint our old wooden houses when it takes so long to find the wabi in them.… — Jack Gilbert Copy Share Image
“But when does something's destiny finally come to fruition? Is the plant complete when it flowers? When it goes to seed? When… — Leonard Koren Copy Share Image
“To Taoism that which is absolutely still or absolutely perfect is absolutely dead, for without the possibility of growth and change there… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
“The Japanese see the seasons as signposts, visible reminders of our own natural rhytms. In modern life, these often get disrupted, as… — Beth Kempton Copy Share Image
“[Donald] Keene observed [in a book entitled The Pleasures of Japanese Literature, 1988] that the Japanese sense of beauty has long sharply… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
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“The tides of time should be able to imprint the passing of the years on an object. They physical decay or natural… — Andrew Juniper Copy Share Image
![“[Donald] Keene observed [in a book entitled The Pleasures of Japanese Literature, 1988] that the Japanese sense of beauty has long sharply differed from its Western counterpart: it has been dominated by a love of irregularity rather than symmetry, the impermanent rather than the eternal and the…” quote by Alain de Botton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/317/alain-de-botton-221_beauty_donald-keene-observed-in-a-book-entitled_2150315.jpg)
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