Ichimei Quotes & Sayings

He was a polite, thoughtful boy, who could spend hours in one spot, staring at the purple mountains against the clear blue sky, lost in his own thoughts and emotions. It was said of him that he had a monk's vocation, and that in Japan he would have been a novice in a Zen monastery. Although the Oomoto faith discouraged proselytizing, Takao surreptitiously preached his religion to Heideko and his children, but Ichimei was the only one who practiced it with fervor, because it fit in with his character and with the concept of life that he had had since childhood. — Isabel Allende

Sustainable development and climate change are two sides of the same coin — Ban Ki-moon

I love being in a band. I love playing with other human beings. I've never practiced drums unless there was another human being in the room. — Ringo Starr

Following dharma puts you in a proper field of attention. In a proper field of attention, regardless of what your outer circumstances are, happiness will flow. — Frederick Lenz

Sometimes for me not throwing a tantrum is what running a marathon or swimming the English Channel must be like for others of a less-challenging emotional nature ... — Roseanne Barr

The mental and physical diseases we face in old age are tied together through the cardiovascular system and metabolic system. A — John J. Ratey

I'm a libertine, but it's not my specialty. — Primo Levi

Life may not offer you the same chance twice. — Chetan Bhagat

On A Beautiful Mind, there was a wall of math. — Josh Lucas

We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Life always comes out of death. The present rises from the ashes of the past. The future is always possible for those who are willing to re-create it. — Joan D. Chittister

The first dollar is the most you will get if you don't love what you are doing. — Ray Kroc

At the age of twenty-two, suspecting their time was limited, Ichimei and she had gorged on love to enjoy it to the full, but the more they tried to exhaust it, the wilder their desire became, and whoever says that every flame must sooner or later be extinguished is wrong, because there are passions that blaze on until destiny destroys them with a swipe of its paw, and even then hot embers remain that need only a breath of oxygen to be rekindled. — Isabel Allende

Every day, I am thinking:
'How can I lead all living beings
to enter the unsurpassed way
so as to quickly acquire the body of a Buddha?
(LS 16: 3.23)
Lotus Sutra, Chapter 16, Section 3, Paragraph 23 — Gautama Buddha

If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the up button. — Sam Levenson

We are all connected by common threads in our experiences despite language barriers or geographical distance. — Esha Young

What is my true substance?
What will remain of me after my death?
Our life is as short as a raging fire:
flames the passer-by soon forgets,
ashes the wind blows away.
A man's life. — Omar Khayyam