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was like a city. You couldn’t let a few less desirable parts put you off the whole. There may be bits you don’t like, a few dodgy side streets and suburbs, but the good stuff makes it worthwhile.
“If you and your partner can understand eighty percent about each other- that is to say, if you can accept that eighty percent is enough- it is likely to be good for relationship....twenty percent of your partner will remain unchartered territory. the mystery and intrigue of it will sustain your interest in (and affection for) them. there's no such thing as one hundred percent mutual understanding...”
― Don't Worry: 48 Lessons on Relieving Anxiety from a Zen Buddhist Monk
― Don't Worry: 48 Lessons on Relieving Anxiety from a Zen Buddhist Monk
“Kazuo Inamori, who took over as CEO of Japan Airlines and led it through a restructuring after bankruptcy, also a Zen priest, once said: 'There is no such thing as failure. You cannot fail if you are challenging yourself. The only time you fail is when you give up.”
― Don't Worry: 48 Lessons on Relieving Anxiety from a Zen Buddhist Monk
― Don't Worry: 48 Lessons on Relieving Anxiety from a Zen Buddhist Monk
“A tree is a memory keeper. Tangled beneath our roots, hidden inside our trunks, are the sinews of history, the ruins of wars nobody came to win, the bones of the missing.
The water sucked up through our boughs is the blood of the earth, the tears of the victims, and the ink of truths yet to be acknowledged. Humans, especially the victors who hold the pen that writes the annals of history, have a penchant for erasing as much as documenting. It remains to us plants to collect the untold, the unwanted. Like a cat that curls up on its favourite cushion, a tree wraps itself around the remnants of the past.”
― The Island of Missing Trees
The water sucked up through our boughs is the blood of the earth, the tears of the victims, and the ink of truths yet to be acknowledged. Humans, especially the victors who hold the pen that writes the annals of history, have a penchant for erasing as much as documenting. It remains to us plants to collect the untold, the unwanted. Like a cat that curls up on its favourite cushion, a tree wraps itself around the remnants of the past.”
― The Island of Missing Trees
Rozita’s 2025 Year in Books
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