“It's just good hospitality,' Tokue countered.
‘For the customers?'
‘No. The beans.'
‘The beans?'
‘Because they came all the way from Canada. For us.”
― Sweet Bean Paste
‘For the customers?'
‘No. The beans.'
‘The beans?'
‘Because they came all the way from Canada. For us.”
― Sweet Bean Paste
“If all you ever see is reality, you just want to die. The only way to get over barriers, she said, is to live in the spirit of already being over them.”
― Sweet Bean Paste
― Sweet Bean Paste
“I don’t want to disappoint you, but Toku herself said at the time that she couldn’t actually hear the voices of beans. But if you live in the belief that they can be heard, then someday you might be able to hear them. She said that was the only way for us to live, to be like the poets. That’s what she said. If all you ever see is reality, you just want to die. The only way to get over barriers, she said, is to live in the spirit of already being over them.”
― Sweet Bean Paste
― Sweet Bean Paste
“Curiosity and passion are the enemies of anxiety. Even when I fell into anxiety, if I get curious enough about something outside of me it can help pull me out. Music, art, film, nature, conversation, words. Find passion as large as your fear. The way out of your mind is via the world.”
― The Comfort Book
― The Comfort Book
“You have survived everything you have been through, and you will survive this too. Stay for the person you will become. You are more than a bad day, or week, or month, or year, or even a decade. You are a future of multifarious possibility. You are another self at a point in future time looking back in gratitude that this lost and former you held on. Stay.”
― The Comfort Book
― The Comfort Book
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