Tanioka Ahi Quotes & Sayings

I love this world because it is imperfect. It is imperfect, and that's why it is growing; if it was perfect it would have been dead. Growth is possible only if there is imperfection. I would like you to remember again and again, I am imperfect, the whole universe is imperfect, and to love this imperfection, to rejoice in this imperfection is my whole message. — Osho

We have on earth exactly the amount of time that has been allotted to us, no more and no less. We really have precious little control. — Chris Bohjalian

It is difficult to begin without borrowing, but perhaps it is the most generous course thus to permit your fellow-men to have an interest in your enterprise. The owner of the axe, as he released his hold on it, said that it was the apple of his eye; but I returned it sharper than I received it. — Henry David Thoreau

Your religion is not what you do on Sunday. It is how you live Monday through Saturday. — Shannon L. Alder

I think anybody who has been abused as a kid - and I was abused as a kid, by various people - will say it's irrational because violence is irrational. — Samantha Morton

By then I'd figured out the gift of failure, which is that it breaks through all that held breath and isometric tension about needing to look good: it's the gift of feeling floppier. — Anne Lamott

You will only be loved and respected if you love and respect yourself. Never try to please everyone; if you do, you will be respected by no one. — Paulo Coelho

Karou had things to do. Sometimes they took a few hours; other times, she was gone for days and returned weary and disheveled, maybe pale, maybe sunburned, or with a limp, or possibly a bite mark, and once with an unshakable fever that had turned out to be malaria. — Laini Taylor

Discrimination against nonwhites will not be tolerated. Discrimination against whites is fine-as long as the discrimination is done in the name of nondiscrimination. — Jared Taylor

My father had a good sense of humour about a lot of things, including life, which I think I inherited. — Brian Dennehy

Decide that you like college life. In your dorm you meet many nice people. Some are smarter than you. And some, you notice, are dumber than you. You will continue, unfortunately, to view the world in exactly these terms for the rest of your life. — Lorrie Moore

I don't know what that is. I don't have Facebook."
"You don't have Facebook?" I gasp. "How in the world do you know what's going on with your friends if you don't have Facebook?"
"I call them and say 'hey, what's going on? How are things? Anything new?'"
"Oh, yeah, I guess you could do that." He squeezes my hand and chuckles. — Aurora Rose Reynolds

Your generation and mine have had very little real experience; we've been severed from the direct experience of war by some very good things. By the end of the draft, and by the defeat in Vietnam. — Michael Ignatieff