Fumio Quotes

#1. We're saying the story doesn't end here, that the air in your lungs is there for a reason.

Jamie Tworkowski

#2. Be respectful of your Sensei.

Fumio Demura

#3. You have buttered your bread. Now you must lie on it.

Beverly Rycroft

#4. Life has a time limit. And we are changing all the time. So are our ambitions, desires, and purposes . . . The important thing is to find something that never changes in you.

Fumio Obata

#5. A good meditation, even when it is interrupted by occasional nodding, is much more beneficial than many outward religious exercises.

Johannes Tauler

#6. It's the things you'd be willing to buy again that give you true satisfaction.

Fumio Sasaki

#7. I have been a Christian all my life, but it's impossible to be so deeply involved in these stories without it making you think again, and without it making you consciously aware of the people involved.

Della Reese

#8. Figure out for yourself what you want to be really good at, know that you'll never really satisfy yourself that you've made it, and accept that that's okay

Robert B. Reich

#9. If formality and courtesy take over the feelings . . . how silly and meaningless these things could become. And despite all this, I still take part in it!

Fumio Obata