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    Thich Nhat Hanh
    “Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.”
    ― Thich Nhat Hanh
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    Lao Tzu
    “Would you like to save the world from the degradation and destruction it seems destined for? Then step away from shallow mass movements and quietly go to work on your own self-awareness. If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself. If you want to eliminate the suffering in the world, then eliminate all that is dark and negative in yourself. Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.”
    ― Lao Tzu
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    Shunryu Suzuki
    “In the beginners mind there are many possibilities, but in the experts there are few”
    ― Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
    tags: inspirational, philosophy, zen
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    Carl Sagan
    “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”
    ― Carl Sagan
    tags: evidence, faith, science, skepticism
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    Carl Sagan
    “If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
    ― Carl Sagan, Cosmos
    tags: science
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    Carl Sagan
    “It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brains fall out.”
    ― Carl Sagan
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    C.S. Lewis
    “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books, inspirational, reading, tea
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    Muriel Barbery
    “When tea becomes ritual, it takes its place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things. Where is beauty to be found? In great things that, like everything else, are doomed to die, or in small things that aspire to nothing, yet know how to set a jewel of infinity in a single moment?”
    ― Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog
    tags: beauty, ceremony, infinity, ritual, tea
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    Douglas Adams
    “Arthur blinked at the screens and felt he was missing something important. Suddenly he realized what it was.

    "Is there any tea on this spaceship?" he asked.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: arthur-dent, humor, tea
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    Lin Yutang
    “There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life.”
    ― Lin Yutang, The Importance of Living
    tags: tea
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    D.T. Suzuki
    “Who would then deny that when I am sipping tea in my tearoom I am swallowing the whole universe with it and that this very moment of my lifting the bowl to my lips is eternity itself transcending time and space?”
    ― Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, Zen and Japanese Culture
    tags: tea, transcendence, universe, zen
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  • #13
    “I am in no way interested in immortality, but only in the taste of tea.”
    ― Lu T'ung
    tags: awesomeness, tea
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    William Faulkner
    “The scattered tea goes with the leaves and every day a sunset dies.”
    ― William Faulkner
    tags: day, life, sunsets, tea
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    Harold Monro
    “When the tea is brought at five o'clock
    And all the neat curtains are drawn with care,
    The little black cat with bright green eyes
    Is suddenly purring there.”
    ― Harold Monro, Collected poems;
    tags: cats, tea
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    A.A. Milne
    “Christopher Robin was home by this time, because it was the afternoon, and he was so glad to see them that they stayed there until very nearly tea-time, and then they had a Very Nearly tea, which is one you forget about afterwards, and hurried on to Pooh Corner, so as to see Eeyore before it was too late to have a Proper Tea with Owl.”
    ― A.A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner
    tags: company, tea
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    Kakuz Okakura
    “[Tea-masters] have given emphasis to our natural love of simplicity, and shown us the beauty of humility. In fact, through their teachings tea has entered the life of the people.”
    ― Kakuz Okakura, The Book of Tea
    tags: humility, simplicity, tea
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    Lu Yu
    “The effect of tea is cooling and as a beverage it is most suitable. It is especially fitting for persons of self-restraint and inner worth.”
    ― Lu Yu, The Classic of Tea: Origins & Rituals
    tags: tea
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    Charles Dickens
    “The privileges of the side-table included the small prerogatives of sitting next to the toast, and taking two cups of tea to other people's one.”
    ― Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit
    tags: meals, privileges, tea
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    Gabriel Garca Mrquez
    “The usual for me." The usual was a strong infusion of different kinds of Oriental teas, which raised her spirits after her siesta.”
    ― Gabriel Garca Mrquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
    tags: refreshment, tea
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    J.M. Barrie
    “This meal happened to be a make-believe tea, and they sat 'round the board guzzling in their greed; and really, what with their chatter and recriminations, the noise, as Wendy said, was postiviely deafening.”
    ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
    tags: chatter, make-believe, phantasy, tea
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  • #22
    “I read the tea leaves
    as if they were words
    left over from a conversation
    between two cups.”
    ― Kenny Knight, The Honicknowle Book of the Dead
    tags: tea
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    John Larison
    “Tea has a manner of setting the world right.”
    ― John Larison, Whiskey When We're Dry
    tags: tea
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  • #24
    “After lunch - one short nap:
    On waking up - two cups of tea.
    Raising my head, I see the sun's light
    Once again slanting to the south-west.
    Those who are happy regret the shortness of the day;
    Those who are sad tire of the year's sloth.
    But those whose hearts are devoid of joy or sadness
    Just go on living, regardless of 'short' or 'long'.

    -After Lunch”
    ― Po Ch-i, The dragon book
    tags: being, happiness, just-being, life, lunch, sadness, tea, time
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    Guillermo del Toro
    “Coffeea barbaric drink. That poor, tortured bean. All that fermenting and husking and roasting and grinding. And what is tea? Tea is dried leaves rehydrated. Just add water, Mrs. Strickland. All living things need water.”
    ― Guillermo del Toro, The Shape of Water
    tags: coffee, drinks, tea, water
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    Daniel Scholten
    “Er war von einer Malzbierh?lle in eine Frchteteeh?lle geraten.”
    ― Daniel Scholten, Der zweite Tod: Ein Fall fr Kommissar Cederstr?m
    tags: tea
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    W.H. Auden
    “The crack in the tea-cup opens
    A lane to the land of the dead.”
    ― W.H. Auden, As I Walked Out One Evening: Songs, Ballads, Lullabies, Limericks & Other Light Verse
    tags: mortality, tea
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  • #28
    “When I drink tea I am conscious of peace. The cool breath of heaven rises in my sleeves, and blows my cares away.”
    ― Lo Tung
    tags: peace, tea
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    J.M. Barrie
    “The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.”
    ― J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan
    tags: barrie, belief, fantasy, flying, imagination, kensington-gardens, london, magic, neverland, park, peter-pan, scotland, self-confidence
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    J.M. Barrie
    “All children, except one, grow up.”
    ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
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    J.M. Barrie
    “Would you like an adventure now, or would like to have your tea first?”
    ― J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan
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