Hakujin Quotes & Sayings

The only way I can stop people from stealing is also not to steal myself, and it's one of the most difficult things. — Rick McCallum

If I didn't write my soul would dry up and die. — Isabel Allende

I glanced at the contents of what I was photocopying. They were the rules of the golf club of which Mister Saito was a member. I started to laugh.
The next minute I felt more like crying, thinking about all the innocent trees that my superior was wasting to chastise me. I imagined the forests of the Japan of my childhood - maples, cedars, and ginkgoes - felled for the sole purpose of punishing a creature as insignificant as myself. I remembered, again, that Fubuki's family name meant forest. — Amelie Nothomb

Some people misconstrue our band just to be a commercial venture. — Chris Martin

LOVE is to stop making demands on people and give them room to grow. — Jacque Fresco

Once you know the nature of anger and joy is empty and you let them go, you free yourself from karma. — Gautama Buddha

We Japanese, on the other hand, know our egos are nothing. We bend our egos, all of the time, and that is where we differ. That is the fundamental difference, Hatsue. We bend our heads, we bow and are silent, because we understand that by ourselves alone, we are nothing at all, dust in a strong wind, while the 'hakujin' believes his aloneness is everything, his separateness is the foundation of his existence. He seeks and grasps, seeks and grasps for his separateness, while we seek union with the Greater Life
you must see that these are distinct paths we are travelling, Hatsue, the 'hakujin' and we Japanese (p. 176). — David Guterson

TO BE "THE SEWER OF CHRISTENDOM and drain all the discords out of it" was the primary function of the Crusades, — Barbara W. Tuchman

The whites, you see, are tempted by their egos and have no means to resist. We Japanese, on the other hand, know our egos are nothing. We bend our egos, all of the time, and that is where we differ. That is the fundamental difference, Hatsue. We bend our heads, we bow and are silent, because we understand that by ourselves, alone, we are nothing at all, dust in a strong wind, while the hakujin believes his aloneness is everything, his separateness is the foundation of his existence. He seeks and grasps, seeks and grasps for his separateness, while we seek union with the Greater Life - you must see that these are distinct paths we are traveling, Hatsue, the hakujin and we Japanese. — David Guterson

At 78 years old, I am not surprised at much anymore. Germany has taken divergent positions before, so has France, so has England, so has the US. — Donald Rumsfeld

While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you will be nothing. — Martial

While forced to dwell apart from thy dear face, Love, robed like sorrow, led me by the hand And taught my doubting heart to understand That which has puzzled all the human race ... — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

If everyone liked what I did, I probably wouldn't be playing anything of depth. — Joshua Redman

It is slavery to live in the mind unless it has become part of the body — Khalil Gibran

I hope people learn the power of vulnerability through my songs. I think vulnerability can save the world. Empathy helps people connect with each other. — Mary Lambert

There's nothing wrong with acknowledging the panoply of life's rich experience. — David Duchovny