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Quotes by Japanese Authors
"We are the sum total of our choices."
"He felt as if his heart had dried up. I needed her he thought. I needed someone like her to fill the void inside me. But I wasn't able to fill the void inside her. Until the bitter end, the emptiness inside her was hers alone."
"Luka fisik memang diperlukan saat mempelajari sesuatu yang penting dalam hidup."
"I might have been afraid that if I really loved someone and needed her, one day she might suddenly disappear without a word, and I'd be left all alone."
"Not just beautiful, though--the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they're watching me."
"She gave me this look " she might have been watching from a lifeboat as the ship went down. Or maybe it was the other way around."
"God's ultimate purpose for creating you is not for you to go to heaven. If the purpose for your creation was just for you to go to heaven, you will die immediately you got born-again. God's ultimate purpose for creating you is for you to influence and impact generations positively to the glory of His name."
"Being alive, if you had to define it, meant emitting a variety of smells."
"Have books 'happened' to you? Unless your answer to that question is 'yes,' I'm unsure how to talk to you."
"Leadership is never an avenue to be self-serving but,a platform to render great service to people."
"Thought leadership is first and foremost life leadership."
"Everybody thinks I'm this delicate little girl."
"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."
"Leadership is relationship."
"People can easily forget how fast you did your work, but can hardly forget how well you did it."
"A good manager instills staff with self-confidence, teaches them to believe in themselves and helps them to realise their brilliance. Do not ever treat your staff with disrespect. It is competent until proven incompetent; not incompetent til proven competent."
"Female competition is when you are with a guy you like and you look around, see a girl who is prettier than you standing nearby, and think to yourself: 'I wish she wasn't here.' -This is what happens when you attach your identity and sense of worth to the amount of male attention you receive."
"Before and after you do your best, know it that you must rely on God. Your best - no matter how great - is nothing if you minus God from the equation."
"Life's no piece of cake, mind you, but the recipe's my own to fool with."
"You are a special breed that has never been. You are the highest stratum of the society. You belong to a class that is beyond compare. You are full of superiority that gives especial worth which is meritoriously near the standard or model and eminently good of its kind. You are an expression of distinction, the perfection of superbness and effulgence of class. You are meant for the highest crown of success, created for affecting lives, configured for goodness, packaged to be set apart and set great store by, and ordained to be widely known and honored for greater achievement. You are a rare breed with divine and inherent ability to reign, rule, dominate and prosper in every way of life."
"Compassion, not castigation is the way to help a person become better."
"Living your life through negative feelings and memories is doing yourself a dishonour.If you want to change you need to be willing to leave your past wounds behind you. -If you wish to remain stuck in your attachment to past pains then dare to ask yourself exactly why you feel the need to define yourself by your past traumas or tragedies."
"Time does not expand.""But time is actually expanding, isn't it? You yourself said that time adds up.""That's only because time needed for transit has decreased. The sum total of time doesn't change. It's only that you can see more movies."
"Words left their mouths to hang frozen in midair."
"Bad habits are like comfort zones; easier to get into, but harder to get out of."
"Robbing people of their actual history is the same as robbing them of part of themselves. It's a crime."Fuka-Eri thought about that for a moment.Tengo went on, "Our memory is made up of our individual memories and our collective memories. The two are intimately linked. And history is our collective memory. If our collective memory is taken from us - is rewritten - we lose the ability to sustain our true selves."
"The utility of adversity is to draw inspiration, wisdom and strength from it."
"There is nothing in this world that never takes a step outside a person's heart."
"All I wanted was to go off to some other world, a place beyond anybody's reach. A place beyond the flow of time."
"I always felt as if I'd been handed a cardboard box crammed full of monkeys. I'd take the monkeys out of the box one at a time, carefully brush off the dust, give them a pat on the bottom, and send them scurrying off into the fields. I never knew where they went from there."
"It's only when you learn, live and give sincere service that you can experience life's deepest fulfillment and true joy."
"You like to write. It's the single most important quality for someone who wants to be a writer. But not in itself enough."
"We are truly defined by what we pass on to the next generation."
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