"Leave undone whatever you hesitate to do."

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Source : "The Tzuredzure gusa of Yoshida no Kaneyoshi". Book by Yoshida Kenkō, translated by George Sansom, 1911.

Yoshida Kenko

“It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn. The true object of juvenile education, is to provide, against the age of five and twenty, a mind well regulated, active, and prepared to learn. Whatever will inspire habits of industry and observation, will sufficiently answer this purpose.”
“You never imagine that when you say hello to someone and you fall in love, that some day you'll have to say goodbye.”
“The key to understanding complicated things is knowing what not to look at.”
“I always tell our community that we should attract the people Jesus attracted and frustrate the people Jesus frustrated. It's certainly never our goal to frustrate, but it is worth noting that the people who were constantly agitated were the self-righteous, religious elite, the rich, and the powerful. But the people who were fascinated by him, by his love and grace, were folks who were already wounded and ostracized â€” folks who didn't have much to lose, who already knew full well that they were broken and needed a Savior.”
“Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.”

Source : Moshe Dayan (1992). “Moshe Dayan: Story of My Life”, Da Capo Press
“Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery.”
“If you wake up in Moscow and put on the Science channel, it doesn't feel like an American channel, it feels like their channel. In fact, Discovery is Vladimir Putin's favorite channel.”

Source : Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com
“If I make a wrong decision, I worry what might have been. I stress out over very insignificant things.”

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