Bonsai of Thought: Two Hundred Seventeen

1. When you stay awake through the night, you'll find someone to keep you company.
Whether that someone is yourself or another.

2. Students of high caliber create teachers of high worth.

3. Rather than spewing forth all the heat within you,
say instead: My very existence has become unbearable to you!

4. What good would it do to possess the entire world
if you keep your own heart buried in a well?

5. Before mixing with people,
it's essential to learn to distrust them.

6. If I were to lose you!
...This very fear is a prison!

7. Why do you think enmity is my aim?
My rivalry too can harbor friendship!

8. Those whom you help will be the very ones to incite you toward danger.

9. Services or goods that are purchasable should be bought and enjoyed. Whatever is for sale must be bought. Free consumption often leads to suffering. What's the point of saving one rupee today only to lose a thousand tomorrow? If something you like can be bought, it's better to buy and enjoy it. You can certainly maintain good relations with the seller, but don't let that relationship lose out to money!

10. : Writing is such agony, and when we die, it all ends!
: But what happens if we don't write?

11. The person who never becomes mine—
why does the heart chase only after them?

12. Love and time—these two things can never be extracted from anyone by force.

13. What's the point of placing reservations on words?
Is there any glory in forcing someone to speak according to your wishes?

14. You can't keep anyone with so many restrictions. You can keep a dog—you could raise a dog if you wanted.

15. I have no reservations about anything concerning you.
Let there be no reservations about anything concerning me.

16. Never believe all tales of sorrow.
Most cunning people are masters at fabricating stories of personal grief.

17. We don't bless Messi by watching him play—rather, we ourselves are blessed.

18. It's been so long now,
the rain no longer falls.

19. Why so many questions in love?
What kind of love does the questioner really have?

20. People can be known in two ways:
by marrying them, by lending them money.