Hitsuzen In Japanese Quotes & Sayings

The closer one gets to realizing his destiny, the more that destiny becomes his true reason for being. — Paulo Coelho

No wonder she was so underweight. She was desperate to please a woman that could never be pleased, in the hopes of being loved and accepted by the very person that should be giving that freely. — Rose Wynters

We particularly need to listen to older people and children. They all have stories to tell that enrich the mind and the heart. Children simplify things, often with brutal honesty. Older people bring the perspective of their long years on issues. Suffering people also help us understand what are the truly important matters of life. There is something to learn from all people if we are only willing to sit at their feet and humble ourselves enough to ask the right questions. — Gordon MacDonald

There are no heroes and there are no villains. There are just opposing points of view. That's all history is...the viciously long battle between world views. — Peter J. Tomasi

Your "everybody" probably represents even a smaller proportion of the population than your Rolodex. Psychologists have documented that our typical everybody - to which they refer as the "generalized other" - is usually a collection of about five or six people. — Margie Warrell

The child, in fact, once he feels sure of himself, will no longer seek the approval of authority after every step. — Maria Montessori

Nearly the physical size of Los Angeles, Bukchang housed fifty thousand prisoners who were kept in by, among many other things, a four-meter-high fence. If you were sent here, so was your entire family-the classic definition of guilt by association, which extended to infants, toddlers, teenagers, siblings, spouses, and grandparents. Babies born here shared the same guilt as their families. Unauthorized babies born here, because intercourse and pregnancies were strictly regulated, were killed. Age and personal culpability meant nothing, and a toddler and an ancient grand- mother were treated the same-brutally. — David Baldacci

That is the ultimate power, to stare death in the face and be unafraid. — Orson Scott Card

When I see a couple of kids
And guess he's fucking her and she's
Taking pills or wearing a diaphragm,
I know this is paradise
Everyone old has dreamed of all their lives
Bonds and gestures pushed to one side
Like an outdated combine harvester,
And everyone young going down the long slide — Philip Larkin

I'm not even a trained producer. I just keep following my ear and working on stuff until it sounds the way I like it. — A-Trak

Every time I've been on Everest, people have died, though not in any expedition I was part of. — Kenneth Kamler

If you think it's simple, then you have misunderstood the problem. — Bjarne Stroustrup

Sometimes doesn't mean behaving nice, means you will got the same answer, it never means that everything done in positive = returns positive.... sometimes comes and negative. — Deyth Banger