Yoshihisa Yokoyama Quotes & Sayings

A man can never compete with a woman's father — Richelle Mead

You give me I will surely give a etenth to You. — Anonymous

I wish there were a way to spend more time on the surface. But oh well. 31 sols will have to do. — Andy Weir

When the mind, for want of being sufficiently reduced by recollection at our first engaging in devotion, has contracted certain bad habits of wandering and dissipation, they are difficult to overcome, and commonly draw us, even against our wills, to the things of the earth.
I believe one remedy for this is to confess our faults, and to humble ourselves before God. I do not advise you to use multiplicity of words in prayer: many words and long discourses being often the occasions of wandering. Hold yourself in prayer before God, like a dumb or paralytic beggar at a rich man's gate. Let it be your business to keep your mind in the presence of the Lord. If it sometimes wander and withdraw itself from Him, do not much disquiet yourself for that: trouble and disquiet serve rather to distract the mind than to re-collect it: the will must bring it back in tranquility. If you persevere in this manner, God will have pity on you. — Brother Lawrence

Growing up, us Eighties Babies were all told we were the best, that we could be anything we wanted to be; it was normal to spoil kids and fill them with lofty expectations. The only difference between me and everybody else was that I really was the best and really could be anything I wanted to be. — A.D. Aliwat

Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers. — William Penn

If only mankind could hold its own fertility in awe, which is one and the same whether it manifests itself in the spirit or in the flesh. For creativity in the spirit has its origins in the physical kind, is of one nature with it and only a more delicate, more rapt and less fleeting version of the carnal sort of sex. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Words may inspire but only action creates change. — Simon Sinek

Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren't distracted by the total lack of content in your writing. — R. K. Milholland

Creativity is paradoxical. To create, a person must have knowledge but forget the knowledge, must see unexpected connections in things but not have a mental disorder, must work hard but spend time doing nothing as information incubates, must create many ideas yet most of them are useless, must look at the same thing as everyone else, yet see something different, must desire success but embrace failure, must be persistent but not stubborn, and must listen to experts but know how to disregard them.
[Twelve Things You Were Not Taught in School About Creative Thinking (The Creativity Post, December 6, 2011)] — Michael Michalko

At their best, thrillers not only entertain. Ideally they also reflect the society in which they are set, analyzing our fears and how we perceive the world. — David Morrell

I love the rain. It calms me down, somehow, soothes my reckless heartbeats. It's like chamomile tea for my soul. — Jodi Perkins

The fact of knowing how to read is nothing, the whole point is knowing what to read. — Jacques Ellul

Ancient simplicity is gone ... the people of today are satisfied with nothing but finery. — Ihara Saikaku

each other and laughed. — James Patterson