"I think I have made it clear that I never intended to make enemies. But in an age when anti-foreign sentiment was running high, it was unavoidable that in my position as an advocate of open intercourse and free adoption of Western culture, I should make some adversaries."

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Source : Yukichi Fukuzawa, Eiichi Kiyooka (1966). “The Autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa”, p.225, Columbia University Press

Fukuzawa Yukichi

#Running Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Adoption Quotes

“So if we look at progress, or evolution, or we look at accomplishment in our life, the key is to be continually moving on, expanding and growing, clarifying, developing and maturing. The opposite would be getting stuck, staying stuck, so there's no maturing, no developing, no accomplishing, no movement.”

Source : Dennis Genpo Merzel (2007). “Big Mind, Big Heart: Finding Your Way”, Big Mind Pub
“The myths and legends about Faerie are many and diverse, and often contradictory. Only one thing is certain - that nothing is certain. All things are possible in the land of Faerie.”
“On my first visit to the public library, I was like a kid at a candy store where all the candy was free. I gorged myself until my tummy ached.”
“The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.”
“Fortune rarely accompanies anyone to the door.”

Source : "'Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia' ('The Art of Worldly Wisdom')". Book by Baltasar Gracian, translated by Joseph Jacobs. Maxim No. 59, 2010.
“I began to stack my sculptures into an environment. It was natural. It was a flowing of energy.”
“Got no religion. Tried a bunch of different religions. The churches are divided. Can't make up their minds and neither can I.”
“Much like photographs, I also love the idea that ghosts are memories frozen in time. We can be haunted by both just as horrifically. One really becomes a metaphor for the other.”

Source : Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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