Izumi Quotes

#1. And remember don't high post when you're far from home, and high posting when you're all alone.

Mos Def

#2. I'm who I am now because you've been with me.

Hisaya Nakajo

#3. In Chhattisgarh, there is no Narendra Modi factor; people know that he only speaks lies and is desperate to become prime minister.

Charan Das Mahant

#4. When a girl smiles, she's as beautiful as a blooming flower.

Daisuke Hagiwara

#5. Although I try / to hold the single thought / of Buddha's teaching in my heart, / I cannot help but hear / the many crickets' voices calling as well.

Izumi Shikibu

#6. Come quickly
as soon as these blossoms open, they fall. This world exists as a sheen of dew on flowers.

Izumi Shikibu

#7. The power of letters is immeasurable. Use them with care".

Kyoka Izumi

#8. O, Great Spirit, open my eyes, open heart's wings, open my ears to your voice in all things.

Rumi

#9. For a moment
he became smoke.
How intimate,
now,
the cloudy sky.

Izumi Shikibu

#10. Even when a river of tears courses through this body, the flame of love cannot be quenched.

Izumi Shikibu

#11. The owner's job is to hire the general manager. The general manager's job is to run the hockey team.

Henry Samueli

#12. Even if I now saw you only once, I would long for you through worlds, worlds, worlds.

Izumi Shikibu

#13. I know I always worked hard on making sure we came out with the best possible product and of course we were working with four other people, you have to balance that as well.

Chris Squire

#14. Perhaps, if I make a friend
of the mountain cuckoo
in this world,
he will talk to me
when we cross the mountain of death

Izumi Shikibu

#15. The reason I'm keeping her secret for her, pretending that I don't know she's a girl is because I don't want to lose her. And that's exactly why I can't let her know that I know.

Hisaya Nakajo

#16. The one close to me now; even my own body
these too will soon become clouds, floating in different directions.

Izumi Shikibu

#17. Hatred happens when we refuse to see someone for their entire selves; we fear that if we see more than the qualities we hate, we will become them or worse, allow them to enter our hearts.

Katherine Russell

#18. Jesus Christ has to suffer and be rejected ... Suffering and being rejected are not the same.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#19. Watching the moon at midnight, solitary, mid-sky, I knew myself completely, no part left out.

Izumi Shikibu

#20. Christian love, which applies to all, even to one's enemies, is the worst adversary of Communism.

Nikolai Bukharin

#21. Since the day I first met you, you've given me so many precious things. If I hadn't met you, I would never have become the person I am today.

Hisaya Nakajo

#22. There is a spiritual aspect to our lives - when we give, we receive-when a business does something good for somebody, that somebody feels good about them!

Ben Cohen

#23. Rather than recall
in these flowers
the fragrance of the past,
I would like to hear this nightingale's voice,
to know if his song is as sweet.

Izumi Shikibu

#24. In this world
love has no color
yet how deeply
my body
is stained by yours.

Izumi Shikibu

#25. If the one I waited for came now,
What should I do?
This morning's garden filled with snow
Is far too lovely
For footsteps to mar.

Izumi Shikibu

#26. In love longing I listen to the monk's bell. I will never forget you even for an interval short as those between the bell notes.

Izumi Shikibu

#27. I refuse to do anything that would help Republicans win a Senate seat in New York, and give the Senate majority to the Republicans.

Harold Ford Jr.

#28. I don't care whether you're a guy or a girl. I'll always like you.

Hisaya Nakajo

#29. This act demonstrates graphically a turning away the past and moving ahead. You now get to refresh your time in a friendly way by running with the watch instead of against it or away from it.

Joe Henderson