Yasuhiro Fukushima Quotes & Sayings

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield. — Benjamin Franklin

Whether you have a problem in your life or not depends upon your own attitude, your own understanding. — Shunryu Suzuki

If your child can't resist throwing gravel in the park, in spite of your efforts to offer tempting alternatives, you can say, "I'm taking you home now. I don't want anyone to get hit by a rock, even a little one."

If your child wants to help put pancake batter in the pan, but despite friendly reminders you can't convince him not to jump around at the stove, you can say, "I can't cook with you now. I'm too worried about burns."

If your child refuses to get in his carseat, "I can see the seat belt is uncomfortable. You feel freer without it. I can't take you to your friend's house without the belt buckled." Or, "I don't want to be late for work. I'm buckling you in. I know how much you hate it! — Joanna Faber

What else did he say?"
She screwed up her face. "Oh, some weird thing about telling you that he still feels the same way about that tent, and he promises to say it to you in person next time he sees you."
I gave a bark of laughter that was more of a sob. "That asshat," I blubbered.
Elodie nodded in sympathy. "Such an asshat. — Rachel Hawkins

A lot of people get really stuck in this idea that everything's been done and there's nowhere left to go. — Win Butler

The strongest, toughest men all have compassion. They're not heartless and cold. You have to be man enough to have compassion - to care about people and about your children" (217) - John Singleton "Oh Man, I've Become My Father — Denzel Washington

When it comes down to it, though, the real decision is inevitable: If one of us has to be destroyed, let's make damn sure we're the ones alive at the end. — Orson Scott Card

A statement is persuasive and credible either because it is directly self-evident or because it appears to be proved from other statements that are so. — Aristotle.