How Do You Live?

by Genzaburo Yoshino

For truly, just as you felt, individual people, one by one, are all single molecules in this wide world. We gather together to create the world, and what’s more, we are moved by the waves of the world and thereby brought to life.

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.

If it means anything at all to live in this world, it’s that you must live your life like a true human being and feel just what you feel.

it is only through the life you will lead, building on your many experiences and impressions, that you will be able to understand the truths in the words of these great thinkers.

The most important thing—more than what other people think, more than anything—is that you should first know for yourself, truly and deeply, where human greatness lies.

Human beings should never be so humiliated as to damage their self-respect.

“But people can forget their fear if a heroic spirit burns within them. Courage grows in a person, higher than any barrier, and then even your precious life becomes less precious.

a person’s conduct was made up of actions that, once done, could not be undone, and that was a truly scary thing.

It’s hard to admit our mistakes. But in the pain of our mistakes there is also human greatness.

I can become a good person. I can become a good person and create one good person for the world.