Nahoko Yoshimoto Quotes & Sayings

Love is you. Love is calling you. Life is awaiting you. Go forth and live fully. Be whomever you are. Define you. — Sereda Aleta Dailey

If you seek to serve people more than to gain power, you will not only serve people, you will gain influence. — Timothy Keller

In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died - an entire town destroyed — Barack Obama

If thou seest anything in thyself which may make thee proud, look a little further and thou shalt find enough to humble thee; if thou be wise, view the peacock's feathers with his feet, and weigh thy best parts with thy imperfections. — Francis Quarles

I think more and more respect has been accorded to teachers, and quite rightly so. — Michael Gove

Respect is a thing earned, not bought, and a man who lets it be known that he seeks respect will probably never see it bestowed. — Brett J. Talley

Just as all writers were beginners once, so were all novels. They all went through rough stages, even the ones by our most hallowed masters. — Roz Morris

But very early in life I became part of the majority culture and now don't think of myself as a minority. Yet the university said I was one. Anybody who has met a real minority - in the economic sense, not the numerical sense - would understand how ridiculous it is to describe a young man who is already at the university, already well into his studies in Italian and English Renaissance literature, as a minority. — Richard Rodriguez

From the very commencement the student should set out to witness the progress and effects of sickness and ought to persevere in the daily observation of disease during the whole period of his studies. — Robert James Graves

Life's neither a good nor an evil: it's a field for good and evil. — Seneca The Younger

How the Idolatry of Christian Same-Sex Marriage Advocates Takes Two General Forms — Joe Carter

Except for the risk, the marijuana situation in California is a lot like the booze situation in the 1920's. Pot is everywhere, thousands of people smoke it as often as they take aspirins. But the fact of illegality has bred a cultishness, a pot underground whose partisans are forced to skulk around like spies, convening in dark rooms to pass their criminal pleasure from hand to nervous hand. Many get high from the sheer risk. — Hunter S. Thompson

If your happiness depends on your children being happy, that makes them your hostages. So stay out of their business, stop using them for your happiness, and be your own happiness. And that way you are the teacher for your children: someone who knows how to live a happy life. — Byron Katie

When you're about 20 years old, you kind of think out - I figured out that it was better - less good to be successful and better to have a laughing life, laugh more than you frown all through your life. Because on the day you die, which one would you have said had the happier life, the better life? And so I put a lot of humor in my life. — Steve Wozniak