Ikigai Symbol Quotes & Sayings

It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen. — Brigitte Bardot

I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one half his days and mad the other. — Anne Bronte

Power - often military power - was at the origin of these inequities. — Joseph E. Stiglitz

I think for Thanksgiving particularly I've always, one of the fun things for me about doing a big dinner is having friends and family so we've always done that, and even through our other holidays like having a mix of friends and family, and if you don't have your family nearby, or it's tough for you, find a friend and go and eat with them. — Kate Walsh

You have to make thousands and thousands of drawings before an illustration is perfected. — Richard MacDonald

There isn't one tight little circle of cheaters and one tight little circle of honest students. Some kids cheat at home but not at school; some kids cheat at school but not at home. Whether or not a child cheated on, say, the word completion test was not an iron-clad predictor of whether he or she would cheat on, say, the underlining A's part of the speed test. If you gave the same group of kids the same test, under the same circumstances six months apart, Hartshorne and May found, the same kids would cheat in the same ways in both cases. But once you changed any of those variables-the material on the test, or the situation in which it was administered-the kinds of cheating would change as well. — Malcolm Gladwell

Marriage transforms a distraction into a support, the power of which should be, and happily often is, in direct proportion to the degree of imbecility it supplants. — Thomas Hardy

The anxiety engendered by confronting the abyss of nothingness [of the loss of self] is more terrifying than the tortures of hell. In the vision of hell, I am punished and tortured - In the vision of nothingness I am driven to the border of madness - because I cannot say 'I' any more. — Erich Fromm