Hotaru Takegawa Quotes

#1. If you are burdened with depressing feelings of guilt or disappointment, of failure or shame, there is a cure.

Boyd K. Packer

#2. A fanatic is a man who, when he's lost sight of his purpose, redoubles his effort.

Poul Anderson

#3. Sometimes trying to know someone so well is not always good.

Uzoma Nnadi

#4. Nothing worth having was ever achieved without effort

Theodore Roosevelt

#5. Sometimes you think people will be around forever, and then you lose them with no warning at all.

Meg Wolitzer

#6. Flat or round, there has always been hate in the world.

Tanith Lee

#7. All things are formed of patterns, from a single blade of grass to the most majestic of mountains: air and water, fire and earth; Life itself.

Melissa McPhail

#8. There is this strangeness of a life story having no shape - or more accurately, nothing but its present - until it has its ending; and then suddenly the whole trajectory is visible.

James Wood

#9. The sea is very beautiful and gives us many things, but it must be understood and respected, or it will slap you ...

J.Z. Colby

#10. How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!

Logan Pearsall Smith

#11. Systems Thinking provides the more holistic way to view the problems

Pearl Zhu

#12. There was such a relative paucity of smells in California that the interconnectedness of all possible smells was not apparent. She

Jonathan Franzen

#13. I once knew a writer who, after saying beautiful things about the sea, passed through a Pacific hurricane, and he became a changed man.

Joshua Slocum

#14. Of all the things I wish for her, above all, I want her to know and love the sea.

Laurie Nadel

#15. Not Afraid. I knew you were a person who ... wouldn't be forced ... Well, yes, I was afraid. I was afraid of you. Not of making a mistake. I knew it wasn't a mistake. But you were-yourself. You aren't like most people, you know. I was afraid of you because I knew you were my equal.

Ursula K. Le Guin