Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it in order to tell it.

There is no medicine that cures what happiness cannot.

La memoria del corazon elimina los malos recuerdos y magnifica los buenos.

We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen more than we say.

-- Zeno of Citium

Excess benevolence becomes weakness. Excess righteousness becomes rigidity.

-- The 'One-Eyed Dragon' of northern Japan who carved

I came as dew, I vanish as dew — all that I was, all I achieved at Naniwa, is a dream within a dream.

-- The peasant who became ruler of all Japan

Life is like a long journey carrying a heavy burden. Never hurry.

-- The founder of Japan's Tokugawa shogunate

If the cuckoo will not sing, wait until it does.

-- The founder of Japan's Tokugawa shogunate

Without detachment, one cannot clarify purpose; without tranquility, one cannot reach far.

-- The legendary chancellor and military strategist of the Shu Han kingdom during China's Three Kingdoms period