Taisho Japanese Quotes & Sayings

People had an illogical, self-serving rationale when it came to interpreting the behavior of others. — Marisha Pessl

Someday, if your life is long and your thinking machinery stays in gear, you'll live to remember the last good thing that ever happened to you. That's not pessimism talking, just logic. — Stephen King

I'm in love with her and I'm in love with Maxwell. I don't know if it's equal. How do you measure how much you love someone? If they were both hanging off a cliff and I could only choose one, I'd join them on the cliff and hope we could go together. I can't divide myself from them. — Amelia LeFay

...officers in the army, (except those in the highest positions), are paid most inadequately for the services they perform; and the deficiency is made up by honor, which is represented by titles and orders, and, in general, by the system of rank and distinction. — Arthur Schopenhauer

For a wild child born into a rigid community, the usual outcome is to experience the ignominy of being shunned. Shunning treats the victim as if she does not exist. It withdraws spiritual concern, love, and other psychic necessities from that person. The idea is to force her to conform, or else kill her spirituality and/or to drive her from the village to languish and die in the outback — Clarissa Pinkola Estes

The human heart is the only thing whose worth increases the more it is broken. — Shakieb Orgunwall

The greatest curse that can befall a free people, is civil war. — Alexander H. Stephens

But what now if all the peace, the comfort, the contentment were to come to a horrible end? — Franz Kafka

If you keep looking backwards, you don't go anywhere. — Jeff Ross

Everyone contributes a word, a sentence, an image, but in the end it all makes sense: the happiness of one becomes the joy of all. — Paulo Coelho

A Grand Design we couldn't see because we were part of it. A Grand Design we only got occasional, fleeting glimpses of. A Grand Design involving the entire course of history and all of time and space that, for some unfathomable reason, chose to work out its designs with cats and croquet mallets and penwipers, to say nothing of the dog. And a hideous piece of Victorian artwork. And us. — Connie Willis

Minimalists are people who only own what they really need on a regular basis. — Emile Joy

See ye not, Courtesy is the true Alchemy, turning to gold all it touches and tries? — George Meredith

That was the deal basically: catatonia without; frenzy within — Jeffrey Eugenides

Revenge is solely about passion. Rage. Fury. Vengeance, on the other hand, is about retribution for a crime done against oneself. — Pete Kahle