Matsubaya Ryokan Quotes & Sayings

It was not a matter of believing or disbelieving what I read, but of feeling something new, of being affected by something that made the look of the world different. — Richard Wright

If you live in the past and allow the past to define who you are, then you never grow. — Oprah Winfrey

I am not a political thinker. I'm not even much of a thinker. I'm a hack novelist. — Christopher Buckley

I think there are certain questions that get asked in comics over and over again, and people want definitive answers, but I feel like there shouldn't be definitive answers. — Greg Rucka

We decide where the time goes. There's so much freedom in that, and so much responsibility. — Shauna Niequist

Your parents don't give you much love, do they?'
'I don't need that stuff,' I told her.
'Henry, everybody needs love.'
'I don't need anything.'
'You poor boy. — Charles Bukowski

In truth, philosophy is the mode of thought shaped by the most radical form of prejudice: the passion of being-in-the-world. With the sole exception of specialists in the field, virtually everyone senses that anything which offers less than this passion play remains philosophically trivial. Cultural anthropologists suggest the appealing term 'deep play' for the comprehensively absorbing preoccupations of human beings. From the perspective of a theory of the practising life we would add: the deep plays are those which are moved by the heights. — Peter Sloterdijk

Then it is in me, too, the psychotic streak. A psychotic world we live in. The madmen are in power. How long have we known this? Faced this? And-how many of us do know it? ... Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally. Waking up. I suppose only a few are aware of all this. Isolated persons here and there. But the broad masses-what do they think? All these hundreds of thousands in this city, here. Do they imagine that they live in a sane world? Or do they guess, glimpse, the truth ... ? — Philip K. Dick

Oh the gift that god could give us, to see ourselves as others see others. — Robert Burns

He who has never tasted jail Lives well within the legal pale, While he who's served a heavy sentence Renews the racket, not repentance. — Ogden Nash

It's important to set challenges that you're not sure you're equal to. — Dorothy Allison

He that has never suffered extreme adversity knows not the full extent of his own depravation. — Charles Caleb Colton

While other industries have suffered, the nonprofit arts world continues to build in strength while it encourages the growth of innumerable small businesses on its periphery, thereby creating more jobs. — Louise Slaughter

For so long, I've only had one-sided feelings for other people. I've completely forgotten how good it feels to be loved. — Hinako Takanaga