Kawanabe Kyosai Quotes

#1. Nothing is real unless people agree that it is.

Mary Gergen

#2. What harm cause not those huge draughts or pictures which wanton youth with chalk or coals draw in each passage, wall or stairs of our great houses, whence a cruel contempt of our natural store is bred in them?

Michel De Montaigne

#3. We easily enough confess in others an advantage of courage, strength, experience, activity, and beauty; but an advantage in judgment we yield to none.

Michel De Montaigne

#4. I'm not ready to be a woman yet, I'd like it if my body were more boyish. Maybe I'll like my curves when I'm older but right now they kind of make me squirm.

Vanessa Marcil

#5. Telling a story of illness, one pulls a thread through a narrow opening flanked on one side by shame and the other by trivia.

Susan Griffin

#6. It is a solemn thing to find oneself drawn out in prayer which knows no relief till the soul it is burdened with is born. It is no less solemn afterwards, until Christ is formed in them.

Amy Carmichael

#7. I hate dreaming because when you want to sleep, you want to sleep. Dreaming is work. Next thing you know, I have to build a go-cart with my ex-landlord.

Mitch Hedberg

#8. That's what Google taught me. Aim higher. Udacity is my playground - to radically experiment and find out. I've seen the light.

Sebastian Thrun

#9. Key feature of sexual revolution is the large-scale publication and commercialization of details that were once secret. Sexuality has been trivialized. The interesting thing about this is that exaggerated portrayals apparently destroy desire more effectively than any repression.

Volkmar Sigusch

#10. Every once in a while when I get a migraine, I like to think, "Who hates me today?"

Heidi Julavits