Yamagata Quotes & Sayings

His followers called him Mahasamatman and said he was a god. He preferred to drop the Maha- and the -atman, however, and called himself Sam. He never claimed to be a god, but then he never claimed not to be a god. — Roger Zelazny

When it's over no one cares what you did — R.Gayan Priyankara

I'm a big believer that there's a reason for everything. I'm a hopeless optimist. — Rachael Yamagata

There's something about [pain] that excites me. If I'm feeling really awful about something, it's because I haven't experienced it before. There's something I need to learn from it. — Rachael Yamagata

In love relationships, there's such intimacy, and the potential to be the most vulnerable and honest and raw with another person. Why can't we have that transparency with everyone in our lives and reach that higher connection? — Rachael Yamagata

I wrote my first song when I was twelve on the piano. — Rachael Yamagata

I treasure my mornings. I get up early and ignore everything work-related for the first few hours. It's just me and my coffee addiction. — Rachael Yamagata

A person that is strong laughs even in the face of despair. — Ishio Yamagata

It's easy for me to be vulnerable and craft songs when I'm being a hermit in my woods loft, secluded. When I get attention for it, whether it's on stage or in life - I have sort of a love-hate relationship with all of it. That makes me feel really stark naked. — Rachael Yamagata

Follow your instincts, and handle all with respect and diplomacy. — Rachael Yamagata

I wish you health, and more than wealth, I wish you love — Rachael Yamagata

I'm addicted to the dynamics of relationships whether they be in love, work, between strangers on the streets, or in the world in general. — Rachael Yamagata

I've seen a lot of friends who have a lot of great projects, whether it's a script or a play or whatever, and it is a great project and they have great people involved, and they can't make it. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

My breaking heart and I agree, that you and I could never be, so with my best ... my very best, I set you free — Rachael Yamagata

It's not that he doesn't smile; it's that if his smile were something you drew, you'd erase it, thinking, Wrong. — Elizabeth Berg

My own brain. When I get it out of the way, I'm fine. — Rachael Yamagata

Love could solve everything. — Rachael Yamagata

Life, he knew, had meaning and was fully possessed only as it was remembered and reshaped. — Jane Hamilton

Each and every one of us can make changes in the way we live our lives and become part of the solution [to climate change] — Al Gore

If you hold on to certain things that are comfortable and maybe a bad pattern for you psychologically, then you rob yourself of the experience of the next thing that happens when you do start to let go. It's only by trusting that, and by the leaps of faith, that you remember that's true. — Rachael Yamagata

Everyone is more than what you see on the cover; we all run deep and have our story. — Rachael Yamagata

I do have faith that something better is always coming for you. — Rachael Yamagata

So for those of you falling in love,
Keep it kind, keep it good, keep it right.
Throw yourself in the midst of danger,
But keep one eye open at night. — Rachael Yamagata

Writing and performing are to me what water and movement are to sharks. — Rachael Yamagata

Amazin'.' he said again. 'He just looks as though he's thinking, right?'
'Er ... yes.'
'But he's not actually thinking?'
'Er ... no.'
'So ... he just gives the impression of thinking but really it's just a show?'
'Er ... yes.'
Just like everyone else, then really,' said Ridcully — Terry Pratchett

As I grow older, what I find interesting is that I get experience with pain, different types of pain, and I start to see the lovely hilarity of life. Things that were once so crushing take on a different essence. I move through it at a faster rate. It's like traveling: it opens my eyes. My process is to allow myself to have it and to not judge myself or the situation too much, and then to create something with it. — Rachael Yamagata

Only my pain is more silent than my anger. — Robin Hobb

Massoumeh Ebtekar is the highest-ranking woman in Iran's government, a symbol of President Mohammed Khatami's promise to promote women into high-profile positions. — Elaine Sciolino

I'm banged up and bloody and someone seems to be hammering on my left temple from inside my skull. — Suzanne Collins

I can't control the criticism. It's something you certainly don't appreciate, but by the same token, everybody is entitled to their opinion. — Don Shula

The usefulness of a man or woman of God relies on the ability to remain distinct. — Kevin Thoman

I think he [Heidegger] sets the question up in a useful way and, despite appearances, he's not 'against' technology. He just wants us to have a questioning and thoughtful relation to it. This must be relevant to any approach. — George Pattison

Hopefully, my tears are worth something to the outside world. — Rachael Yamagata

Flute was actually my first instrument. I had a year of lessons and then stopped after feeling like I was going to faint all of the time. — Rachael Yamagata

The public has a vital stake in natural resources, Jim, such as iron ore. The public can't remain indifferent to reckless, selfish waste by an anti-social individual. After all, private property is a trusteeship held for the benefit of society as a whole. — Ayn Rand

Pain is a huge gift. It can expand you like nothing else. If you can embrace it and sink into it, you'll get to the point where you can bend and transform your experience of it. Having some sort of creative outlet to do that is another gift. — Rachael Yamagata