Uematsu Shibuya Quotes & Sayings

There is no bandit so powerful as Nature.
The interaction of the positive and the negative principles, which produces the visible universe.
In the whole universe there is no escape from it. — Zhuangzi

When life hands you lemons - SQUAT! Squats make everything better. And if squats don't, bacon will — Anna Lee

We need to ask ourselves why are so busy. Sabbath helps us to question our assumptions. The truth is that we may be busy because we feel a need to validate our worth. Sabbath gives us a chance to step off the hampster wheel and listen to the voice that tells us we are beloved by God. The sabbath heals us from our compulsion to measure ourselves by what we accomplish, who we know, and the influence we have. Sabbath enables us to define ourselves less by our achievements and more as beloved daughters and sons of God. As we become more aware of how much we are cherished as children of God, we grow in our trust of God. — Ken Shigematsu

A skilled warrior goes into a fight knowing his only fight is with death. An unskilled warrior goes into a fight only to win. — Cole Gibsen

Laughter and prayer are the two noblest habits of man; they mark us off from the brutes. — Christopher Morley

Don't worry, my little lump of rock. Everybody gets a chance to choose. Or else where would irony come from? — Catherynne M Valente

We are animals descended from five billion years of wanting, striving, and seeking. And life just doesn't cooperate. So we suffer. And so the solution to that problem is to upgrade our minds, in a distinctly 'unnatural' way, so that the mind clings less and lets go more. — Jay Michaelson

His point is that we are what we think, and our lives run in the direction of our thoughts. If we think angry thoughts, we'll be angry; if we think positive thoughts, we'll be positive; if we think negative thoughts, we'll be negative. The mind is a garden, and we have to cultivate it, and we are responsible for the kind of seed we sow into the furrows of our mind. — Robert J. Morgan

My mother never really thought I could become anything. — Barbra Streisand