The Corridor Couldn't Have Smelled More Strongly

I Can See You Have A Great Deal Of Water In Your Personality. Water Never Waits. It Changes Shape And Flows Around Things, And Finds The Secret Paths No One Else Has Thought About - The Tiny Hole Through The Roof Or The Bottom Of A Box. There's No Doubt It's The Most Versatile Of The Five Elements. It Can Wash Away Earth; It Can Put Out Fire, It Can Wear A Piece Of Metal Down And Sweep It Away. Even Wood, Which Is Its Natural Complement, Can't Survive Without Being Nurtured By Water And Yet, You Haven't Drawn On Those Strengths In Living Your Life, Have You?

This Is Why Dreams Can Be Such Dangerous Things: They Smolder On Like A Fire Does, And Sometimes They Consume Us Completely.

It Was What We Japanese Called The Onion Life, Peeling Away A Layer At A Time And Crying All The While.

His Face Was Very Heavily Creased, And Into Each Crease He Had Tucked Some Worry Or Other, So That It Wasn't Really His Face Any Longer, But More Like A Tree That Had Nests Of Birds In All Of The Branches. He Had To Struggle Constantly To Manage It And Always Looked Worn Out From The Effort.

I Cannot Tell You What It Is That Guides Us In This Life; But For Me, I Fell Toward The Chairman Just As A Stone Must Fall Toward The Earth. When I Cut My Lip And Met Mr. Tanaka, When My Mother Died And I Was Cruelly Sold, It Was All Like A Stream That Falls Over Rocky Cliffs Before It Can Reach The Ocean. Even Now That He Is Gone I Have Him Still, In The Richness Of My Memories.