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“It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.”
― Vincent Van Gogh

“What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?”
― Vincent Van Gogh

“Close friends are truly life's treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves. With gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support us, to share our laughter and our tears. Their presence reminds us that we are never really alone.”
― Vincent van Gogh

“The beginning is perhaps more difficult than anything else, but keep heart, it will turn out all right.”
― Vincent van Gogh

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

“In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics’. All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and schizophrenia.”
― George Orwell, Politics and the English Language

“But isn’t that funny? That each person should be chasing the tail of the person in front of them, when no one is coming first or last. In other words, when it comes to happiness nothing is better or worse - there is no definitive state.”
― Michiko Aoyama , Alison Watts (Translator)

“Life is one revelation after another. Things don’t always go to plan, no matter what your circumstances. But the flip side is all the unexpected, wonderful things that you could never have imagined happening. Ultimately it’s all for the best that many things don’t turn out the way we hoped. Try not to think of upset plans or schedules as personal failure or bad luck. If you can do that, then you can change, in your own self and in your life overall.”
― Michiko Aoyama , Alison Watts (Translator)

“You may say that it was the book, but it’s how you read a book that is most valuable, rather than any power it may have itself.”
― Michiko Aoyama , Alison Watts (Translator)

“If you only ever look in front, your view will be quite narrow.”
― Michiko Aoyama , Alison Watts (Translator)

“Jobs can be a clue to somebody’s character. A shortcut way of describing them. But only in a limited, stereotyped sort of way.”
― Michiko Aoyama , Alison Watts (Translator)

“Basically, I’m not very driven. Even writing a cv is a big hassle for me.”
― Michiko Aoyama , Alison Watts (Translator)

“If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does.”
― Lewis Caroll, Alice in Wonderland

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche