Ariwara Narihira Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes we are pulled along by our genetic legacies, and sometimes we pull them along behind us, despite all odds, into the lives we choose to make for ourselves. — Shukyou

Any fool can start a war, and once he's done so, even the wisest of men are helpless to stop it - especially if it's a nuclear war. — Nikita Khrushchev

There's no reason the nation of Africa cannot and should not join the ranks of the world's most prosperous nations in the near term, in the decades ahead. There is simply no reason. — Joe Biden

I have always known that at last I would take this road, but yesterday I did not know that it would be today. — Ariwara No Narihira

Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings. — Charles Caleb Colton

And over that side of the island all their sacred men were at work trying to kill me by their (magical) arts. Messengers arrived from every quarter of the island, inquiring anxiously about my health, and wondering if I was not feeling sick. — John Gibson Paton

I can't for the life of me imagine that God would say, 'I will punish you because you are black; you should have been white. I will punish you because you are a woman; you should have been a man. I punish you because you are homosexual; you ought to have been heterosexual. I can't, I can't for the life of me believe that that is how God sees things. — Desmond Tutu

Love is a self-manifested notion depending on how lonely you are - so if you're really attracted to someone, and you're really lonely, I think you can fall in love in an instant. It's all about where you're at. — Kiefer Sutherland

If there were no
cherry blossoms
in this world
How much more tranquil
our hearts would be in spring. — Ariwara No Narihira

I've got everything I need: a nice piece of land with hawks and owls and incredible sunsets, and the good will of my neighbors. — Burt Shavitz

Ah, if in this world there were no such thing as cherry blossoms, perhaps then in springtime our hearts would be at peace. — Ariwara No Narihira