Funaki Masakatsu Quotes & Sayings

The seed of the tree falls into the dark earth. Painfully it breaks open and grows towards the light, the higher principle. Growing is a heaping up of small things, through many moments of struggling, fighting the Holy Wind, the formative powers, to find meaning in life, building awareness one step at a time, until one learns how to go with the Wind, how to transcend the pain of daily existence and shed new seed for a new day. — Wilna Van Der Walt

Well, I am going on 83 now but not about to quit. There are too many things I know about where I want to see what happens. You, my dear, being one of them, and this new century starting.
Do what you can to make it good. And remember, as we used to say, that life is like a pudding: it takes both the salt and the sugar to make a really good one. — Joan W. Blos

You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies.
You may trod me in the very dirt, but still like dust, I'll rise. — Maya Angelou

A curse lies upon those that, when the truth suffers, have not a word to defend it. — Richard Sibbes

What good is an edge if you can't push someone over it? — Dannika Dark

I invest in funds myself even though I run my own fund for my daughters. — Jim Cramer

Love consents to all and commands only those who consent. Love is abdication. God is abdication. — Simone Weil

A proof of really great art is that it is generally true - it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor art is liable. — Lafcadio Hearn

You can defeat fear through humor, through pain, through honesty, bravery, intuition, and through love in the truest sense. — John Cassavetes

Thank you." I've said thank you thousands of times in my life. Most of the time I mean it to some degree. There are times when I've said it and felt the gratitude behind the words wholeheartedly, but I don't think I ever understood what those two words truly meant until this very moment. Now I think I need a new phrase because thank you is insufficient in this situation. — Kim Holden

If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today. — Jack Canfield