"Leave the problems of God to God and……" — James Clavell
"Leave the problems of God to God and karma to karma. Today you're here and nothing you do will change that. Today you are alive and here and honored and blessed with good fortune. Look at this suset, it's beautiful, neh? This sunset exists. Tomorrow does not exist. There is only now. Please look. It is so beautiful and it will never happen ever again, never, not this sunset, never in all infinity. Lose yourself in it, make yourself one with nature and do not worry about karma, yours, mine, or that of the village."
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James Clavell
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31 Quotes by James Clavell
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God gives us intelligence to uncover the wonders of nature. Without the gift, nothing is possible.
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The search for the truth is the most important work in the whole world, and the most dangerous.
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All stories have a beginning, a middle and an ending, and if they're any good, the ending is a beginning.
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Christ, it's so good to be alive.
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The scarcity of years does not necessitate lack of wisdom.
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Isn't man but a blossom taken by wind, and only the mountains and the sea and the stars and this…
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