Katayanagi Institute Quotes

#1. It is not," Valency could hear her mother's prim, dictatorial voice asserting, "it is not MAIDENLY to think about MEN.

L.M. Montgomery

#2. In Mumbai, the air is saltier. The sea is roilier. The traffic is snarlier. The pinks are pinker. The ostentation is crazier.

Hanya Yanagihara

#3. If this is Upper Silesia, what on earth must Lower Silesia be like?

P.G. Wodehouse

#4. The mind, when housed within a healthful body, possesses a glorious sense of power.

Joseph Pilates

#5. You write a song about how you think at the time, and then gradually you drift away from that, and when it's far enough in the past, that's when you think, 'Now I have to write something new.'

Jarvis Cocker

#6. People say they don't have time to cook, yet in the last few years we have found an extra two hours a day for the internet.

Michael Pollan

#7. What's crucial is whether your writing attains the standards you've set for yourself. ( ... ) Basically a writer has a quiet, inner motivation, and doesn't seek validation in the outwardly visible.

Haruki Murakami

#8. Equanimity is the hallmark of spirituality. It is neither chasing nor avoiding but just being in the middle.

Amit Ray

#9. There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#10. An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#11. Obviously memoir is subjective truth: It is my memory, my perspective, that's the beauty. But I still wanted to be as factual as I could.

Cheryl Strayed

#12. Sweetheart, as soon as you have an angry thought you give it to God. He's the only one big enough to handle it.

Hannah Alexander

#13. It's no good going on living in the ashes of a dead happiness.

Nevil Shute