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“We all have unlimited shortcomings. Yet one way of seeing things is to consider our lives as a time frame that allows us continually to work at changing our weaknesses into strengths. This, I must say, is an intriguing task.”
― Nurtured by Love (Revised Edition): Translated from the Original Japanese Text
― Nurtured by Love (Revised Edition): Translated from the Original Japanese Text
“To deceive oneself is worse than to deceive others." These harsh words pierced me to the core.”
― Nurtured by Love: The Classic Approach to Talent Education
― Nurtured by Love: The Classic Approach to Talent Education
“So all these years—since when?—he had been seeing the light of dead stars, long extinguished, yet seemingly still in their appointed places in the heavens.”
― Dead Stars
― Dead Stars
“There’s always a gap between the burn and the sting of it, the pain and the realization.”
― The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight
― The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight
“Wait. This was the first lesson I had learned about love. The day drags along, you make thousands of plans, you imagine every possible conversation, you promise to change your behavior in certain ways -- and you feel more and more anxious until your loved one arrives. But by then, you don't know what to say. The hours of waiting have been transformed into tension, the tension has become fear, and the fear makes you embarrassed about showing affection.”
― By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
― By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
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