Quotes About Shiroyama

#1. Shiroyama's heart stops. The earth's pulse beats against his ear.
An inch away is a go clamshell stone, perfect and smooth ...
... a black butterfly lands on the white stone, and unfolds its wings.

David Mitchell

#2. If only,' Shiroyama dreams, 'human beings were not masks behind masks behind masks. If only this world was a clean board of lines and intersections. If only time was a sequence of considered moves and not a chaos of slippages and blunders.

David Mitchell

#3. When the suffering of another creature causes you to feel pain, do not submit to the initial desire to flee from the suffering one, but on the contrary, come closer, as close as you can to her who suffers, and try to help her.

Leo Tolstoy

#4. With the awakening of his emotions, his first perception was a sense of futility, a dull ache at the utter grayness of his life.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#5. I've had many a player tell me all through high school and right up until signing day that they were coming to Alabama, then they signed with somebody else.

Bear Bryant

#6. So always keep momentum, it's this prime directive for managing a startup.

Sam Altman

#7. Economies thrive when individuals strive, but because individuals will only strive for their own happiness, it is essential that they mistakenly believe that producing and consuming are routes to personal well-being.

Daniel M. Gilbert

#8. But Jesus always leaves the ninety-nine to chase after the one. He always searches for the one lost coin.

Heidi Baker

#9. Benno blushed violently. "I am not a murderer!" he protested. "No one is, until he commits his first crime," William said philosophically.

Umberto Eco

#10. Who soweth good seed shall surely reap; The year grows rich as it groweth old, And life's latest sands are its sands of gold!

Julia Caroline Dorr

#11. What is the way of the Buddha? It is to study the self. What is the study of the self? It is to forget oneself. To forget oneself is to enlightened by everything in the world.

Dogen

#12. Our stubbornness is what's gotten us this far!

Ryuhei Tamura