Only by living at the edge of death can you understand the indescribable joy of life - Shogun.

You never know . . . that's what makes life interesting.

Anger is something you should only vent in front of intimates, and friends and relations. Never be angry in front of strangers because you lose face.

What can I do to help thee?" he asked. "Believe there is a tomorrow.

Leave the problems of God to God and karma to karma. Today you're here and nothing you do will change that. Today you are alive and here and honored and blessed with good fortune. Look at this suset, it's beautiful, neh? This sunset exists. Tomorrow does not exist. There is only now. Please look. It is so beautiful and it will never happen ever again, never, not this sunset, never in all infinity. Lose yourself in it, make yourself one with nature and do not worry about karma, yours, mine, or that of the village.

How beautiful life is and how sad! How fleeting, with no past and no future, only a limitless now.

The scarcity of years does not necessitate lack of wisdom.