Fujigaya Taisuke Quotes & Sayings

The chief element of happiness is this: to want to be what you are. — Desiderius Erasmus

But foremost, I do not subscribe to the view that Islamic culture and democracy cannot be reconciled. — Recep Tayyip Erdogan

They'd entered a clearing. A wide, green meadow in the middle of the forest. The entire space was carpeted with bluebells. Thousands upon thousands of sweetly curving green stalks, their tips heavy with sprays of blue-violet blossoms. The sunlight shone from above and slanted through the trees, catching the blooms at different angles. The whole scene splendid.
It was magical. — Tessa Dare

Life biggest tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late — Benjamin Franklin

Every child, every person needs to know that they are a source of joy; every child, every person, needs to be celebrated. Only when all of our weaknesses are accepted as part of our humanity can our negative, broken self-images be transformed. — Jean Vanier

The soul is sustained by spirituality. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Junk is the ideal product ... the ultimate merchandise. No sales talk necessary. The client will crawl through a sewer and beg to buy. — William S. Burroughs

I shuddered at the mention of Mrs. Steiger.
"What's that about?" Ranger asked.
"Mrs. Steiger is the Antichrist."
"Damn," Ranger said. "I left my Antichrist gun at home."
"Looks like you brought everything else."
"Never know when you'll need some tear gas."
"If we have to gas Mrs. Steiger, it"ll ruin my chances of being Miss Burg in the Mayflower parade. — Janet Evanovich

I imagine that it saddens the heart of God when we murmur and complain, instead of being thankful after He's been so good to us. — Joyce Meyer

I was anti-everything and everyone. I didn't want people around me. This aversion was not some big crippling anxiety; merely a mature recognition of my own psychological vulnerability and my lack of suitability as a companion. Thoughts jostled for space in my crowded brain as i struggled to give them some order which might serve to motivate my listless life. — Irvine Welsh

But when day came, with a sprinkle of rain, and he looked about him and saw on every side an unknown woods, wild heaths, and blue mountain, he thought how large and strange the world was and felt frightened and small. — C.S. Lewis

Whereas if you were writing an op-ed piece or an essay, somebody would be asking, "What's your point?" With poetry you can stay in a moment for as long as you want. Poetry is about metaphor, about a thing standing in for something else. It's the thing that opens out to something else. What that something else is changes for readers. So what's on the page - it falls away. — Claudia Rankine

Holding tight / to their pocketbooks / at the pearly gates / just in case. — Kevin Young

Life's simplest answers are often the easiest to overlook. — Stephen King

Relax in the precious arms of the Holy Spirit. — T. B. Joshua