Jiko Quotes

#1. Everybody has fishes in their stomach so does Jiko. But the biggest fish of all belonged to Haruki#1 and it was more like a whale. After she has become a nun, she learned how to open up her heart so that the whale could swim away.

Ruth Ozeki

#2. There's so much to write. Where should I start?
I texted my old Jiko this question, and she wrote me back this:
'You should start where you are

Ruth Ozeki

#3. This generation must know that the total truthfulness of the bible is under continual assault ...

Albert Mohler

#4. I'm super interested in visual, and I love that being in a band can be as much about making an image as it is about making a sound.

David Longstreth

#5. A woman's situation, i.e those meanings derived from the total context in which she comes to maturity, disposes her to apprehend her body not as instrument of her transcendence, but an object destined for another.

Simone De Beauvoir

#6. What is good only because it pleases cannot be pronounced good till it has been found to please.

Samuel Johnson

#7. The finest opportunity ever given to the world was thrown away because the passion of equality made vain the hope for freedom.

Lord Acton

#8. Ruth was a novelist, and novelists, Oliver asserted, should have cats and books.

Ruth Ozeki

#9. Stress is a message. It is a personal invitation to make a change for the better.

Robert Holden

#10. You can only write by putting words on a paper one at a time.

Sandra Brown

#11. To diminish the suffering of pain, we need to make a crucial distinction between the pain of pain, and the pain we create by our thoughts about the pain. Fear, anger, guilt, loneliness and helplessness are all mental and emotional responses that can intensify pain.

Howard Cutler

#12. We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.

P. J. O'Rourke

#13. She could see now that some of the grime that covered him was blood. He looked to be six or seven years old. His ribs were showing and his belly sunk in towards his spine, leaving a hollow above his hips.

Shirley A. Martin

#14. Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious activity.

Stanislav Grof