Matsuyoshi Arashiro Quotes & Sayings

My greatest asset now is my focus. — Josh McDowell

If today He deigns to bless us With a sense of pardon'd sin, He tomorrow may distress us, Make us feel the plague within, All to make us Sick of self, and fond of Him. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

On second thought
maybe it's the little problems
that pile up the worst.
Deeper and darker.
One after another.

Until there's no light at all. — Madeleine Kuderick

Deeply ambivalent also is carnival laughter itself. Genetically it is linked with the most ancient forms of ritual laughter. Ritual laughter was always directed toward something higher: the sun (the highest god), other gods, the highest earthly authority were put to shame and ridiculed to force them to renew themselves. — Mikhail Bakhtin

We must avoid coming to too close quarters with life. It is a slender crust over which you must walk without bearing down too hard. Hit your heel into it and you make a hole in which you will disappear. True philosophy has never consisted in probing all problems, but often on the contrary eluding them. We are skirting an abyss: beware of vertigo. — Edmond Scherer

He sat back with a satisfied grin. "I just wanted you to admit it." He was especially cute when he got cocky, and he knew it. — Laurelin Paige

O mighty-mouthed inventor of harmonies, O skilled to sing of Time or Eternity, God-gifted organ-voice of England, Milton, a name to resound for ages. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

We are a lost generation, desperately clinging to anything that feels real, but too afraid to become it ourselves. — Anonymous

I can't wait to write a defense of the drone strike that takes out Julian Assange. — Michael Grunwald

His touch could never fail to make me feel desire; yet his hot, sweet breath also made me want to vomit. — James Baldwin

The immediate future of man lies in the imagination and in seeking the dimension where the imagination can be expressed. The present cultural crisis on the surface of the planet is caused by the fact that this is not a fitting theater for the exercise of imagination. It wrecks the planet. The planet has its own Eco-systemic dynamics, which are not the dynamics of imagination. — Terence McKenna