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Quotes by Japanese Authors
"Real success is not rooted in positions, places or possessions, but in fulfilment of God's purposes for our lives."
"There's no short-cut in life but with right knowledge, you can fast-track things to come to pass."
"Surround yourself with those who won't compete but will revel in you your success and see your ascent as a reflection of their own possibilities."
"If we can spend more time uprooting vices and rooting virtues, our world will be safer and better."
"Exactly. When is comes to anything halfway important, you just don't get it. It's amazing to me that you can put a piece of fiction together''Yeah, well, that's a whole different thing.'(from Honey Pie)"
"Leadership is never an avenue to be self-serving but,a platform to render great service to people."
"Self-discovery is life recovery."
"Have your dream...What you need now more than anything is discipline. Cast off mere words. Words turn into stone. (from Thailand)"
"Respond to your ability, play your part and make your mark in history."
"Sitting on the floor, I'd replay the past in my head. Funny, that's all I did, day after day after day for half a year, and I never tired of it. What I'd been through seemed so vast, with so many facets. Vast, but real, very real, which was why the experience persisted in towering before me, like a monument lit up at night. And the thing was, it was a monument to me."
"Whenever she felt like crying, she would instead become angry-at someone else or at herself-which meant that it was rare for her to shed tears."
"The most valuable gift you can give to humanity is a good example."
"I dream, sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do."
"Since I'm a novelist I'm the opposite of you - I believe that what's most important is what cannot be measured. I'm not denying your way of thinking, but the greater part of people's lives consist of things that are unmeasurable, and trying to change all these to something measurable is realistically impossible."
"You like to write. It's the single most important quality for someone who wants to be a writer. But not in itself enough."
"People may laugh at what I do but am not perturbed. My work is to add value to lives. I will keep living my dreams so that by the time my mortal body may stop working, I will remain immortally relevant to generations to come."
"Be careful how you live your life, millions are watching you. You may be inspiring or uninspiring many."
"Everybody thinks I'm this delicate little girl."
"Creativity is key to productivity and prosperity."
"Your wife is your life. Don't let strife thrive in your union."
"You can't be conferred with a glory you never configured your mind to come to."
"There are two motives for writing a book: one, that you may save what you know, the other, that you may share what you know with the public."
"Every challenge is a chance to become a champion."
"The world follows its own course. Each possesses his own thoughts, each treads his own path. So it is with your mother, and so it is with your starling. As it is with everyone. The world follows its own course."
"Leadership is relationship."
"Wasn't it better if they kept this desire to see each other hidden within them, and never actually got together? That way, there would always be hope in their hearts. That hope would be a small, yet vital flame that warmed them to their core-- a tiny flame to cup one's hands around and protect from the wind, a flame that the violent winds of reality might easily extinguish."
"Haida stopped and glanced at the clock on the wall. Then he looked at Tsukuru. He was, of course, Haida the son, but Haida the father has been the same age in his story, and so the two of them began to overlap in Tsukuru's mind. It was an odd sensation, as if the two distinct temporalities had blended into one. Maybe it wasn't the father who had experienced this, but the son. Maybe Haida was just relating it as if his father had experienced it, when in reality he was the one who had. Tsukuru couldn't shake this illusion."
"A relationship that violates values is simply headed for crisis."
"For our society to be better, we must revive our conscience and do Godly things."
"As soon as I sat down across from her, she ordered me to put the entire contents of my pants pockets on the table. I did as I was told, saying nothing. My reality seemed to have left me and was now wandering around nearby. I hope it can find me, I thought."
"When you empower your people, your business will grow."
"Live your best life now, there's no time!"
"Preparation position you for prosperity."
"From the girl who sat before me now...surged a fresh and physical life force. She was like a small animal that has popped into the world with the coming of spring. Her eyes moved like an independent organism with joy, laughter, anger, amazement, and despair. I hadn't seen a face so vivid and expressive in ages, and I enjoyed watching it live and move."
"I have always loved Naoko, and I still loved her. But there is a decisive finality to what exists between Midori and me."
"Discipline your sexuality for it has the proclivity to cause a productivity that can influence now and posterity."
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