Debika

“If you think only of that one thing, you'll never be able to change it, but if your regrets help you to really learn an essential thing about being human, that experience won't have been wasted on you. Your life afterward, thanks to that, will be better and stronger than it was before.”
― Genzaburo Yoshino, How Do You Live?

“There are lots of people in the world who act just for appearance's sake --- in order to seem great in the eyes of others. That type of person worries first about how they are reflected in other people's eyes, and they inadvertently end up neglecting their true selves, as they really are. I hope you don't become that sort of person.

And that is why you absolutely must attend to the things you feel in your own heart the things that move you deeply. That is what is most important now and always. Do not forget this, and think carefully about what it means.”
― Genzaburo Yoshino, How Do You Live?

“It seems so odd to me now, how one can be so unsettled by the improbable. When we know that our entire existence is founded on freak occurrences and improbable coincidences.”
― Solvej Balle, On the Calculation of Volume I

“We are all human beings, so if we can’t all live a life that is really human, something is wrong. A society that doesn’t allow that is wrong. Nobody can deny this, as long as they have an honest heart.”
― Genzaburo Yoshino, How Do You Live?