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“You take many things from the world, but I wonder what you will give back in return?”
― Genzaburo Yoshino, How Do You Live?

“To appreciate art, you must use your inner eyes and ears. You must open your heart.”
― Genzaburo Yoshino, How Do You Live?

“People who pop a painkiller at the smallest hint of a migraine, or who need anaesthetic cream to remove a mole, demand that women giving birth should gladly endure the pain, exhaustion, and mortal fear. As if that’s maternal love. This idea of “maternal love” is spreading like religious dogma. Accept Maternal Love as your Lord and Savior, for the Kingdom is near!”
― Cho Nam-Joo, Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982

“When you’re anxious to learn something and need to get better as quickly as possible…the solution is to make it part of your daily life. After all, there’s no greater teacher than life itself.”
― Kamome Shirahama, Witch Hat Atelier, Vol. 2

“Even if a memory disappears completely, the heart retains something. A slight tremor or pain, some bit of joy, a tear.’

- R”
― Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police

“Stories can entertain, sometimes teach or argue a point. But for me the essential thing is that they communicate feelings. That they appeal to what we share as human beings across our borders and divides. There are large, glamorous industries around stories; the book industry, the movie industry, the television industry, the theatre industry. But in the end, stories are about one person saying to another: This is the way it feels to me. Can you understand what I’m saying? Does it also feel this way to you?”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, My Twentieth Century Evening and Other Small Breakthroughs

“A brilliant solution to the wrong problem can be worse than no solution at all: solve the correct problem.”
― Donald A. Norman, The Design of Everyday Things

“Fail often, fail fast,”
― Donald A. Norman, The Design of Everyday Things

“Cognition attempts to make sense of the world: emotion assigns value.”
― Donald A. Norman, The Design of Everyday Things

“There is nothing more beautiful than people nurturing goodwill toward their fellow beings.”
― Genzaburo Yoshino, How Do You Live?