Kakuzō Okakura quote: "Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence. It inculcates purity and harmony, the mystery of mutual charity, the romanticism of the social order. It is essentially a worship of the Imperfect, as it is a tender attempt to accomplish something possible in this impossible thing we know as life."

Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existe...
KAKUZO OKAHURA

Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C.

You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES

I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON

It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON

She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

We Are All Infinite
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

(All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON

You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE.
STEPHAN CHBOSKY

Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st...
STHEPHEN CHBOSKY

no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

In a world in which the common rule which binds and regulates what the general masses feel is underm...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH

I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES

Some revelations have been reserved for the last days for God to accomplish His original plan.
PST ADELAJA SUNDAY

The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH

Life begins somewhere and ends somewhere with time but to get somewhere with the life you have depen...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH

His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING

And while I'm sure they're very admirable and brave and all the rest of it, I don't personally fancy...
J.K. ROWLING

I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think eve...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word.
DIANA WYNNE JONES

The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a...
NEIL GAIMAN

What is the Other?" they ask.
The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ...
PAULO COELHO

He felt even angrier that Dumbledore was showing signs of weakness. He had no business being weak wh...
J.K. ROWLING

A great future starts with what you can see
SOTONYE ANGA

I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib...
C. JOYBELL C.

I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Look, my friends!' he called. 'Here's a pretty hobbit-skin to wrap an elven princeling in! If it wer...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN

We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. Therefore, everyone sees the world in d...
MUDITHA CHAMPIKA

It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

I have to be seen to be believed.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

Grief is the price we pay for love.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and o...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

Life is short, and that's why, I don't test people; because we all fail tests sometimes, but that is...
C. JOYBELL C.

We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. So, everyone see the world in different...
MUDITHA CHAMPIKA

From the Kindle Book Reflections in the Mirror of Life:
“In a slum somewhere in India
As...
THE PROPHET OF LIFE

Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM

It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER

It may be the kind where, at the age of thirty, you sit in some bar hating everybody who comes in lo...
J.D. SALINGER

Here was one with an air of high nobility such as Aragorn at times revealed, less high perhaps, yet ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN

We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want...
PRINCE WILLIAM

Family is the most important thing in the world.
PRINCESS DIANA

You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I ...
CATHERINE THE GREAT

With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still you...
KATE MIDDLETON

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.
KING SOLOMON

I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather th...
ZARA PHILLIPS

I was always told from the hat-makers that you should have your hair up because it shows the hat mor...
ZARA PHILLIPS

I don't think I'll still be riding at 40. There are a couple of people who are still riding ...
ZARA PHILLIPS

My dad's not a big talker.
ZARA PHILLIPS

My dad can be pretty critical sometimes.
ZARA PHILLIPS

I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment.
ZARA PHILLIPS

You cannot make horses 'safe.'
ZARA PHILLIPS

Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter wha...
ZARA PHILLIPS

It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stu...
ZARA PHILLIPS

I'm an affectionate person.
ZARA PHILLIPS

People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me...
ZARA PHILLIPS

Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: 'My daughter loves you, will you sign an au...
ZARA PHILLIPS

Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about.
ZARA PHILLIPS

My brother and I have been able to get on and have been very lucky to do things with our family that...
ZARA PHILLIPS

I don't think about the media.
ZARA PHILLIPS

I love the sport and being competitive.
ZARA PHILLIPS

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