“ You know Americans...Self-improvement. No matter who or what we are, we're always working on ways to become somebody else. Alan Brown
“ For , literally translated, 'Since it must be so,' of all the good-bys I have heard is the most beautiful. Unlike the and , it does not try to cheat itself by any bravado 'Till we meet again,' any se… Anne Morrow Lindbergh
“ From the moment of my birth, I lived with pain at the center of my life. My only purpose in life was to find a way to coexist with intense pain. Haruki Murakami
“ Tea followers were among the earliest converts to the Christian faith. Takayama Ukon, a daimyo turned ardent evangelist, was a disciple of Sen no Rikyu, the preeminent tea master of all time. After Ch… F. Calvin Parker
“ Toyohiko Kagawa, famed for his ministry to slum-dwellers, paid tribute to all three of Japan's major religious traditions. 'I am grateful for Shinto, for Buddhism, and for Confucianism,' he wrote. To… F. Calvin Parker
“ During the reign of Domitian (81-96 A.D.), Christians in Asia Minor were severely oppressed. The book of Revelation was likely written at this time to encourage them not to apostatize and not even to… F. Calvin Parker
“ The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality. Haruki Murakami
“ I was in Shanghai when the Japanese invaded China. I was there in Shanghai when, the morning after Pearl Harbor, they seized Shanghai. J. G. Ballard
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“ I had a dream about you last night. In this dream we were walking down the beautiful Japanese streets of Florida. Fukuoka is nice in the summer. Rodney Jenkins
“ In a time like this, let us trust in God even more. To trust when life is easy is no trust. Joy Kogawa
“ Great art projects a sense of inexhaustibility. In literature, particularly in poetry, this may be accomplished through ambiguity: Beneath each and every meaning that I can descry lie others, so that… William T. Vollmann
“ To study the self is to forget the self. Maybe if you sat enough zazen, your sense of being a solid, singular self would dissolve and you could forget about it. What a relief. You could just hang out… Ruth Ozeki
“ He invited me to his apartment in the wee hours one morning and pulled out a set of children's building blocks. It seems he used to ride around and around on the Yamanote Line with them, building cast… Ryū Murakami
“ They needed a reason why a little kid would commit murder, someone or something to point the finger at, and I think they were relieved when they hit upon horror movies as the culprit. But there's no r… Ryū Murakami
“ What I always say is that Japanese are like willow. We can be bent easily, but once you try to break us, it would not be so easy. Hiroko Sakai
“ Sheer effort enables those with nothing to surpass those with privilege and position. Toyotomi Hideyoshi
“ I really hope that the Japanese are going to stop demonstrating to the world what man-made radiation does to people. Steven Magee
“ [The] Japanese were a people in a profound, inverse, reverse, or if I preferred it, even perverse sense, more in love with death than living. Sir Laurens van der Post
