“Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the whole earth revolves”

“That is my problem with life, I just rush through it, like I'm being chased. Even things whose whole point is slowness, like drinking relaxing tea. When I drink relaxing tea I suck it down like I'm in a contest for who can drink relaxing tea the quickest.”

“In war, theory is all right so far as general principles are concerned; but in reducing general principles to practice there will always be danger. Theory and practice are the axis about which the sphere of accomplishment revolves.”

“Tea. I find that both settles the stomach and concentrates the mind. Wonderful drink, tea.”

“What happens today, Is a better change tomorrow.

Life is a circle which starts from a point 0 degree (the day your given birth to) and revolves in it's axis (around); people determine where they will end up. The question is do people lifes end up good?”

“A quarter past three," she exclaimed, catching sight of the bedside clock. "What a time to be drinking tea!"
"Anytime," Harold told her, "is time to be drinking tea.”

“She understood too much. She understood that she had reached her destiny point, that time and the circumstances of her life had conspired to bring her to this place. For one ecstatic moment she was the axis on which the stars revolved.”

“Here are your waters and your watering place.
Drink and be whole again beyond confusion.”

“The good doctor put a spoon of tea into my honey." "You're drinking tea a honey badger made," Jim said. "What did you expect?”

“The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the center of each and every town or city.”