How Do You Live?

by Genzaburo Yoshino

there may be nothing more deep-rooted and stubborn than the human tendency to look at and think of things with themselves at the center.

Most people slip into a self-interested way of thinking, become unable to understand the facts of the matter, and end up seeing only that which betters their own circumstances.

To appreciate art, you must use your inner eyes and ears. You must open your heart.

you should collect many experiences and, while you do, always be true to that voice in your heart.

There is nothing more beautiful than people nurturing goodwill toward their fellow beings.

Win or lose, heroes are heroes! Actually, real heroes are great even when they lose.

And with extraordinary abilities, isn’t it possible that one might just as easily accomplish extraordinarily bad things?

you might notice that the great people and heroes that loomed so large in your eyes until now were, ultimately, no more than drops of water drifting in that great stream.

each and every event in our lives happens once only and will never be repeated.

if your regrets help you to really learn an essential thing about being human, that experience won’t have been wasted on you.

it is thanks to sadness, hardship, and pain that we come to know what a true human being is.

Copper, we must find a way to draw knowledge from all our suffering and sadness!

If our dreams are cruelly dashed, then our hearts are wounded and invisible blood flows. If we must live without kindness and affection, our hearts develop an unquenchable thirst.

And now I think I want to ask all of you a question. How will you live?