One can be a soldier without dying and a lover without sighing.
Not a piece of architecture, as other buildings are, but the proud passions of an emperor's love wrought in living stones.
For death, Now I know, is that first breath Which our souls draw when we enter Life, which is of all life center.
Almond blossom, sent to teach us That the spring days soon will reach us.
No power on earth compares to a mother's tender prayers.
Never the spirit was born; the spirit shall cease to be never; Never was time it was not; End and Beginning are dreams! Birth-less and deathless and changeless remaineth the spirit forever. Death hath not touched it all, dead though the house of it seems!