Komusui Quotes & Sayings

To rebel against being born a woman seemed as foolish to her as to take pride in it. — Milan Kundera

Love that goes upward is worship;
Love that goes outward is affection;
Love that stoops is grace. — Donald Barnhouse

Look at everything. Don't close your eyes to the world around you. Look and become curious and interested in what there is to see. — John Cage

There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all. — Sophie Swetchine

Julia Bliss Flaherty, as Ivy now realized, was of the same stripe. Pinned down and obliged to justify herself, she would explain her actions in terms of some altruistic plan. And she might even believe it. But it wasn't that at all. She was like Ivy's grandmother. If you paid fealty to her, she would favor you, and your reputation and power would grow among all the others who did likewise. — Neal Stephenson

There are two indices of genuine art: it is inimitable and it is ineffable. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

So you have to be humble in dealing with the spaces and make sure they are used according to their unique purpose for which there is no alternative...art, if you like, is really a lack of alternatives."

-Jonathan Meese — Prestel Publishing

I believe that life is meaningless without hope, which is really what that line is about. Without hope, what are we living for? I wouldn't wanna see where exactly I'd be in five years. I wouldn't wanna know my exact date of death. I wouldn't want to know my exact cause of death. Certain things I just want to allow to take place rather than just have the knowledge beforehand. — Joe Budden

Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players. — Larry Bird

You have a tendency, Hastings, to prefer the least likely. That, no doubt, is from reading too many detective stories. — Agatha Christie

Dogma in science really is humiliating when it is recognized as dogma. — Sam Harris

When like the patriarchs we learn to dig wells of virtue and spiritual knowledge within ourselves by means of ascetic practice and contemplation, we will find within us Christ the spring of life (cf. Gen. 26:15-18). Wisdom commands us to drink from this spring, saying, 'Drink water from your own pitchers and from the spring of your own wells' (Prov. 5:15). If we do this we shall find that the treasures of wisdom truly are within us. — Maximus The Confessor

Excelling at chess has long been considered a symbol of more general intelligence. That is an incorrect assumption in my view, as pleasant as it might be. — Garry Kasparov