Taneda Japanese Quotes & Sayings

When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied. — Pierre Corneille

Another historical peculiarity of the place was the fact that its large mansions, those relics of another time, had not been reconstructed to serve as nursing homes for that vast population of comatose and the dying who were kept alive, unconscionably, through trailblazing medical invention. — John Cheever

Writing is like a camera. You see the world from a different lens. — Robert Ahaness

For even these are no less bestowed on him of pure grace, than are righteousness and salvation themselves. — Johann Arndt

Haiku is not a shriek, a howl, a sigh, or a yawn; rather, it is the deep breath of life. — Santoka Taneda

For something to become a work of art, a labeling process must take place that requires three participants: an artist who produces an apt object, a client or public, and a critic or connoisseur who mediates between the artist and the public to assure them of the artness of the thing. If I make a painting, it is not sufficient for the painting to be "art" that I consider it so, nor even that you, my friend and neighbor, admire it and hang it on your wall; it must be certified as art by competent authority and exhibited in the institutionally appropriate place, a gallery or museum. — Wyatt MacGaffey

Sometimes things that are crippling to hear may be true or they wouldn't be so crippling. — James E. Cohea Jr.

Real haiku is the soul of poetry. Anything that is not actually present in one's heart is not haiku. The moon glows, flowers bloom, insects cry, water flows. There is no place we cannot find flowers or think of the moon. This is the essence of haiku. Go beyond the restrictions of your era, forget about purpose or meaning, separate yourself from historical limitations - there you will find the essence of true art, religion, and science. — Santoka Taneda

Maturity entails a readiness, painful and wrenching though it may be, to look squarely into the long dark places, into the fearsome shadows. — Carl Sagan

When you step into that boat you have made a silent commitment to your team that you will do everything in your power to help them win. — Mary Whipple

I'm really fun. I'm ridiculously fun. I hope I'm infectiously fun. — Kesha

Moses was a forgotten man in the wilderness, But God had Moses right where he wanted him and met him at a burning bush. — Michael Catt