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"I don't think it's a question of liking or disliking it," Tengo said..."It was the one thing he was best at." "Hmm. I see," Kumi said. She pondered this. "But that might very well be the best way to live your life."
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"The closest thing to perfection is imperfection."
"It's not that I've been invited to the hole I'm standing in. It's that I accepted the invitation."
"If you dream of becoming perfect, you never will.Be satisfied with being imperfect and that will make you perfect."
"The fullness of life's balancing grace will demand the symmetry of recompense for all your loss and pain."
"Pain dutifully reminds me that the world is terribly imperfect, but it faithfully helps me appreciate the world on those days when it's a little closer to being perfect."
"Be open minded like the sky. Be accepting like the ocean. Be loving like a flower."
"If the wind brushes against you, do not complain; it brushes against everyone."
"You do not need to make everyone happy, because you are not paid for."
"You cannot save everyone. Some people are going to destroy themselves no matter how much you try to help them."
"In this world, the mistake is in where one says he has objections. There should be no objection to anything."
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"It just happens to be the way that I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them."
"It was as if my whole life revolved around trying to judge the appropriate point in a conversation to say goodbye."
"One other thing I learned from working in a company was that the majority of people in the world have no problem following orders. They're actually happy to be told what to do. They might complain, but that's not how they really feel. They just grumble out of habit. If you told them to think for themselves, and make their own decisions and take responsibility for them, they'd be clueless."
"There are three ways you can get along with a girl: one, shut up and listen to what she has to say; two, tell her you like what she's wearing; and three, treat her to really good food...If you do all that and still don't get the results you want, better give up."
"He decided not to ask for details. Better to avoid exposing his ignorance even further."
"There are symbolic dreams-dreams that symbolize some reality. Then there are symbolic realities-realities that symbolize a dream."
"Me, I've seen 45 years, and I've only figured out one thing. That's this: if a person would just make the effort, there's something to be learned from everything. From even the most ordinary, commonplace things, there's always something you can learn. I read somewhere that they said there's even different philosophies in razors. Fact is, if it weren't for that, nobody'd survive."
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