Shobijin Quotes & Sayings

I knew these halls so well - and finally it was starting to feel like they knew me, too. — John Green

A painful truth I'd learn later: you may be ready to grow, but you can't fertilize friends and grow them with you. — Sara Levine

Television is more interesting than people. If it were not we should have people standing in the corner of our room. — Alan Coren

A good leader encourages followers to tell him what he needs to know, not what he wants to hear. — John C. Maxwell

If I listen to some utterly perfect performance of an utterly perfect piece while I'm driving, I might want to close my eyes and die right then and there. But listening to the D major, I can feel the limits of what humans are capable of - that a certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect. And personally, I feel that encouraging. Do you know what I'm getting at? — Haruki Murakami

Love simply is - it asks no permissions. Acceptance is all love asks, the only demand it makes, but it is an absolute one. You can either admit it to your heart or refuse it, but there's no other option. — Stephanie Laurens

My father was a world-class scientist and my mother was a prolific painter. I could see that my parents had completely different ways of knowing and understanding the world, and relating to it. My father approached things through scientific inquiry and exploration, while my mother experienced things through her emotions and senses. — Jon Kabat-Zinn

It was good and nothing good is ever lost. — Rosamunde Pilcher

Emerging from the train, I found it was fully night, the air excited by foreboding and something else, something like the feel of a childhood snow day when time was emancipated from institutions, when the snow seemed like a technology for defeating time, or like defeated time itself falling from the sky, each glittering ice particle an instant gifted back from your routine. — Ben Lerner