Arou Quotes & Sayings

Stay focused on what is beautiful and abundant even as illness carves more and more of what you love away — Katrina Kenison

I'd just like you to be your usual cheerful self ... smile, and stay by my side. — Sakura Tsukuba

A person's memories and their actual experiences are surprisingly different. Sometimes the gap between them causes pain. But the memories that make the biggest impression are always changing. So it's okay. — Sakura Tsukuba

Napoleon has still retained a train of parasitical satellites. — Alexandre Dumas

This is reality in a universe without God: there is no hope; there is no purpose. It reminds me of T.S. Eliot's haunting lines:
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.
What is true of mankind as a whole is true of each of us individually: we are here to no purpose. If there is no God, then our life is not fundamentally different from that of a dog. — William Lane Craig

All the stories go with you, Franny thought, closing her eyes. All the things I didn't listen to, won't remember, never got right, wasn't around for. All — Ann Patchett

One day, someone who'll understand your good points and bad points, but who'll love you just the same, will appear in your life. Mark my words! — Sakura Tsukuba

He was smiling and listening. So even if the "real past" and memories of it are completely different, he smiles without saying anything. And then he cries. He cries without telling anyone. — Sakura Tsukuba

You can't see the forest for the trees, Kanade. You say you don't do anything for him ... So then tell me why Arou always gets that grin on his face when you're around? Forget about what those girls say ... and trust in Arou's smile. — Sakura Tsukuba

Remember, ghosts don't care if you believe in them. They can still believe in you. — Eileen Cook

We have all made mistakes in this life. How we learn from our mistakes is the measure of who we are. — Steve Gleason

As a matter of fact, your happiness depends far more on the number of instances of positive feelings, what psychologists call "positive effect", then on their intensity when they hit. In other words, good news is good news first. How good matters rather little. So to have a pleasant life you should spread those small effects across time as evenly as possible. Plenty of mildly good news is preferable to one single lump of great news. The same is property in reverse applies to our unhappiness. It is better to lump all your pain into a brief period, rather than have it spread out over a long time. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Really? Well, I don't see it that way. Not at all. In fact, I think that's a part of you that you don't want other people to see. And that most people probably can't see. But, I see it and I understand. So, don't worry about it! It's cool! You're doin' fine! — Sakura Tsukuba

The future is built by people's hopes, boy! That's why I can see it so clearly! Anyway, make a wish! Open your mouth, say the words ... and who knows? It may come true! What do you wish for, boy? — Sakura Tsukuba

Humans are mysterious creatures. There comes a time when we can clearly understand even things that we can't see. It's the same with anything. If you try your best, you can understand what it's like to "try your best". If you don't try your best, you understand what it's like to "not try your best". — Sakura Tsukuba

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. — Maya Angelou

But, I don't belong to anyone...but myself. — Sakura Tsukuba

We're not God. All we can do is our best. But when I look at you ... I get the feeling that the limit of "your best" is up to you. — Sakura Tsukuba

Love and hate are very close emotions, both intense and consuming — Aleatha Romig

Even when bad stuff goes down, the person who is just about buried under an avalanche of sad memories is made of stern stuff. And so, keeps standing. — Sakura Tsukuba

Start out understanding religion by saying everything is possibly wrong ... As soon as you do that, you start sliding down an edge which is hard to recover from ... — Richard P. Feynman

But, y'know, today I got a lot of help myself. There're tons of things we can't do ourselves, right? And that's why we're helped out. If someone, or something, can lend you a helping hand, great, I say! After all, we're all in this together! — Sakura Tsukuba