Jaymes

“I might not be able to decide whether the road is easy or not, but whether I walk it is entirely up to me.”
― Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù, Heaven Official's Blessing

“You felt that your life would always be this way. Not as one day going by, and then another, but life as an ever-expanding single day. And yet, time did go by.”
― Kaori Fujino, Nails and Eyes

“Those who have known each other for decades can become strangers in a day. We met by chance, and we may part by chance. If we like each other then we shall continue to meet; if we don’t then we shall part. There’s no banquet in the world that doesn’t come to an end, so I’ll say what I want to say.”
― Mò Xiāng Tóngxiù, 天官赐福 [Tiān Guān Cì Fú]

“Imagination is not obligated to let practicalities dominate, nor to judge itself in terms of dualistic language (true vs untrue; reality vs fantasy; good vs evil, etc.) The paradox of imagination is that it cannot imagine itself while it is experienced and it can't judge itself while experienced.

'I promise never to imagine cutting a kittens throat' is a ridiculous proposition. Most of us wish that people would not get pleasure imagining such things to the exclusion of anything else. Even so, imagining per se leaves no traces, while planning may do so and preforming always does. Imagining leave no traces, which is not the same as saying imagining has no effect.”
― Jeanne Randolph, Ethics of Luxury: Materialism and Imagination