What You Are Looking for is in the Library

by Michiko Aoyama

“You managed to find employment, you go to work every day and you can feed yourself. That’s a fine achievement.”

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

“Timing is all-important. Don’t let the right moment slip by.”

There are so many things to do, but I won’t make the excuse that I have no time anymore. Instead, I will think about what I can do with the time I have. One day is going to become tomorrow.

Ughhhh i love this

‘Now, wasn’t that worth all the effort of being born?’”

Being born is probably the most difficult thing we ever have to do. I am convinced that everything else that comes afterward is nowhere near as hard. If you can survive the ordeal of being born, you can get through anything.”

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

Never swerving from a path is not necessarily a virtue—isn’t it better sometimes to be honest about what you really want?

“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.”

Things change. I change, other people change. That’s a good thing.

“This didn’t just come to you. It happened because you did something for yourself. You took action and that caused things to change around you.”

Is that how you make a place for somebody—one person thinking about another?

How much had my own thinking limited my opportunities?

I do whatever moves me—that’s all the reason I need,”

Books belong to everybody: the creators, the sellers and the readers. That’s what society is all about I believe.”

Just as every day is equal in value and no less important than all the others.

Readers make their own personal connections to words, irrespective of the writer’s intentions, and each reader gains something unique.”