What You Are Looking for is in the Library

by Michiko Aoyama

“In a world where you don’t know what will happen next, I just do what I can right now.”

“Life is one revelation after another. Things don’t always go to plan, no matter what your circumstances. But the flip side is all the unexpected, wonderful things that you could never have imagined happening. Ultimately it’s all for the best that many things don’t turn out the way we hoped. Try not to think of upset plans or schedules as personal failure or bad luck. If you can do that, then you can change, in your own self and in your life overall.”

From big things to little, there are some things we simply cannot force to go to plan, no matter how hard we try.

“You may say that it was the book, but it’s how you read a book that is most valuable, rather than any power it might have itself.”