Kokubuncho Quotes & Sayings

but a man did not acquire so much gold brocade without learning to swallow his own desire — Gordon Dahlquist

Some one said the other day that there was a divorce and a case of appendicitis in every family one knows. — Edith Wharton

He who laughs last ... just didn't get the joke. — Carroll Bryant

We cannot hope to die peacefully if our lives have been full of violence, or if our minds have mostly been agitated by emotions like anger, attachment, or fear. So if we wish to die well, we must learn how to live well: Hoping for a peaceful death, we must cultivate peace in our mind, and in our way of life. — Dalai Lama

I suppose this is what I meant when I wrote what I did, sweet pea, about how it is we cannot possibly know what will manifest in our lives. We live and have experiences and leave people we love and get left by them. People we thought would be with us forever aren't and people we didn't know would come into our lives do. Our work here is to keep faith with that, to put it in a box and wait. To trust that someday we will know what it means, so that when the ordinary miraculous is revealed to us we will be there, standing before the baby girl in the pretty dress, grateful for the smallest things. — Cheryl Strayed

For God so loved the world, their father would say, he gave his only begotten son. But what about his daughters, I wondered. What did God do with his daughters? — Jacqueline Woodson

I do think that we are an overmedicated society. — Marcia Angell

Basic understanding of who were are is through Self Awareness. By understanding our thoughts we can dive deeper into them and get a better understanding of who we are in the process. — Matthew Donnelly

May God watch over your soul, which no man may abuse. — John Irving

Always people have counted me out since I got in the league. It never made me any difference. I kept myself around positive people, got a great support system and just kept at it. — Rajon Rondo

We need to interpret interpretations more than to interpret things. — Michel De Montaigne

Nothing disfigures the intellectual's public
performance as much as trimming, careful silence, patriotic bluster, and retrospective and self-dramatizing apostasy. — Edward Said

What is the ultimate solution to the origin of the Universe? The answers provided by the astronomers are disconcerting and remarkable. Most remarkable of all is the fact that in science, as in the Bible, the world begins with an act of creation. — Robert Jastrow

Yeah, sure," I say, and then, for good measure: "Whatever. — Courtney Summers