Makaino Kouji
Flowing blood is proof that you're alive, if it's for the sake of those you love
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The best and most beautiful things in this world can not be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
I need him like the axe needs the turkey.
He was some kind of a man. What does it matter what you say about people ?
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
Knowing means to penetrate through the surface, in order to arrive at the roots, and hence the causes, knowing means to "see" reality in its nakedness. Knowing does not mean to be in the possession of the truth , it means to penetrate the surface and to strive critically and actively in order to approach truth ever more closely.
That dirty, double-crossin' rat !
You were made perfectly to be loved and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals, and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
I feel I have this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. Whether it is a godhead or not, I feel this great force, this untapped power, this dynamic something within me. This feeling defies description, and there is no experience with which this feeling may be compared. It is something like a strong emotion mixed with faith, but a lot stronger.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily.
Why should a man be moral ? Because this strengthens his will.
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
Commit yourself to a dream nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em, Certainly I can ! - and get busy and find out how to do it
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
You're gonna have to learn your cliches. You're gonna have to study them, you're gonna have to learn them, you're gonna have to know them. They're your friends. Write this down: "We gotta play 'em one day at a time."
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.
The book you don't read cant help.
If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave? Stop, Dave. I'm afraid.
Love reminds you that nothing else matters.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
Now is wanted intense karma-yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country be roused.
I'll meet you at the place near the thing where we went that time.
Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.
What is life without the radiance of love.
Happiness is the indication that man has found the answer to the problem of human existence the productive realization of his potentialities and thus, simultaneously, being one with the world and preserving the integrity of his self.
What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.
Most ball games are lost, not won.
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
Find the good -- and praise it.
This is this.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Love is sweet, delicate, dreamy an eternity of gorgeous moments.
Find out what it means to die - not physically, that's inevitable - but to die to everything that is known, to die to your family, to your attachments, to all the things that you have accumulated, the known, the known pleasures, the known fears. Die to that every minute and you will see what it means to die so that the mind is made fresh, young, and therefore innocent, so that there is incarnation not in a next life, but the next day.
If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.
Thou love life ? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.
When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.
The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation - it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.
We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.
To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it.
Beware what you set your heart upon, for it surely shall be yours.
He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.
Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
What we can or can not do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self- realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be.
One drink's too many, and a hundred's not enough.
I won't be ignored, Dan !
Live Simply, Laugh Often, Love Deeply.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
If you build it, he will come.
I am convinced that He ( God ) does not play dice.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.
Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
Honor the ocean of love.
Happiness can not be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
When the going gets tough the tough get going.
When I hear somebody sigh, life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, compared to what ?
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Fortune and love favor the brave.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal ; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
Commit yourself to a dream... Nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
He who conquers himself has won a greater victory than he who conquers a city.
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.
The strength of the heart comes from the soundness of the faith.
Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.
We sat side by side in the morning light and looked out at the future together.