First and foremost, this journal is Friends Only. If you want to add me, just drop me a line underneath Atsushi. *smiles* I tend to post my poetry and silly pics of my animals. Random fangirling is known to appear in this journal too. *laughs*
About me: What do I want to be when I grow up? The music. It is the world to me. If possible, I eat dessert first. People say that I am otherworldly and overwhelming. Or both, all at once. My children consist of three cats and a dog who thinks that she is a cat. An "old maid" and happier because of it! I love to laugh and make people smile, but I do not trust easily. Hate backstabbers and vicious gossips. Prefer solitude over crowds. I think that ink and words are a beautiful combination. Water: Have to touch it, play in it, etc. The sales people at Victorias's Secret know me by name. I spend way too much money on import cds. Books, books, books! I have another LJ, feathersof_jade. More personal and such. I'm known as Hana-chan, Yuki no Hana, Snowflower, Petal, Ryuu no Hana, Baby Jade. Part of an international wolf pack.
{This quote is first because it rings with a truth that I cannot deny.} "I can't protect you without holding a sword. I can't embrace you while holding a sword." -Tite Kubo, Bleach v.5
One who has attained the Tao is master of herself, and the universe is dissolved for her. Throw her in the company of the noisy and the dirty, and she will be like a lotus flower growing from muddy water, touched by it, yet unstained. - T'u Lung
The iris pond has flowered Before the old temple; I sell tea this evening By the water’s edge. It is steeped in the cups With the moon and stars; Drink and wake forever From your worldly sleep. - Baisao (1675-1763)
"Sincerity is to speak as we think, to do as we pretend and profess, to perform what we promise, and really to be what we would seem and appear to be." -John Tillotson (1630 -1694)
"Vision is the art of seeing things invisible." -Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
"Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content." -Helen Keller, 1902
"Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self." -Jean-Luc Godard (1930 - )
"Drop upon drop collected will make a river. Rivers upon rivers collected will make a sea." -Sa'Di (A.D. 1213? - 1292)
"The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience." -Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, 1960
"I should love to satisfy all, if I possibly can; but in trying to satisfy all, I may be able to satisfy none. I have, therefore, arrived at the conclusion that the best course is to satisfy one's own conscience and leave the world to form its own judgment, favorable or otherwise." -Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948)
"You talk of our having an idea; we do not have an idea. The idea has us, and martyrs us, and scourges us, and drives us into the arena to fight and die for it, whether we want to or not." -Heinrich Heine (1797-1856)