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Kakuzo Okakura

The Book of Tea

  • Samia Lamaamrihas quotedlast month
    Those who cannot feel the littleness of great things in themselves are apt to overlook the greatness of little things in others.
  • Samia Lamaamrihas quotedlast month
    The outsider may indeed wonder at this seeming much ado about nothing. What a tempest in a tea-cup! he will say. But when we consider how small after all the cup of human enjoyment is, how soon overflowed with tears, how easily drained to the dregs in our quenchless thirst for infinity, we shall not blame ourselves for making so much of the tea-cup. Mankind has done worse.
  • Samia Lamaamrihas quotedlast month
    Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence. It inculcates purity and harmony, the mystery of mutual charity, the romanticism of the social order. It is essentially a worship of the Imperfect, as it is a tender attempt to accomplish something possible in this impossible thing we know as life.
  • Samia Lamaamrihas quotedlast month
    Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage.
  • galgaumaiaandradahas quotedlast year
    The Sukiya consists of the tea-room proper, designed to accommodate not more than five persons, a number suggestive of the saying "more than the Graces and less than the Muses,

    Ancient Greece

  • galgaumaiaandradahas quotedlast year
    Those who cannot feel the littleness of great things in themselves are apt to overlook the greatness of little things in others.

    Great quote

  • galgaumaiaandradahas quotedlast year
    altar? In the liquid amber within the ivory-porcelain, the initiated may touch the sweet reticence of Confucius, the piquancy of Laotse, and the ethereal aroma of Sakyamuni himself.
  • galgaumaiaandradahas quotedlast year
    altar? In the liquid amber within the ivory-porcelain, the initiated may touch the sweet reticence of Confucius, the piquancy of Laotse, and the ethereal aroma of Sakyamuni himself.
  • galgaumaiaandradahas quotedlast year
    In the worship of Bacchus, we have sacrificed too freely; and we have even transfigured the gory image of Mars. Why not consecrate ourselves to the queen of the Camelias, and revel in the warm stream of sympathy that flows from her
  • Fadwa Azeezhas quoted4 years ago
    until one has made himself beautiful he has no right to approach beauty. T
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