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“It doesn't make a difference whether you have a talent or not. I mean, that isn't the end goal. You have greater freedom than we do. All I have are games. But you can go anywhere and become anything.”
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The best anime quotes about self-discovery.
“It doesn't make a difference whether you have a talent or not. I mean, that isn't the end goal. You have greater freedom than we do. All I have are games. But you can go anywhere and become anything.”
“You see, I really hate the word "responsibility" saying something or doing something "it's your responsibility" "take responsibility" making a "selection" always comes with "responsibility." That's why I abandoned "selection" therefore, I don't have to bear any responsibility anymore.”
“Those three are best friends. They have their respective secrets. And they're deliberately trying not to give themselves away. But neither Orihara or Shizuo had any secrets whatsoever. And that resulted in the complete opposite kind of personal relationship.”
“All the people I saw from my cage...All the things I saw from my cage, that was the whole world to me. At first, all I could sense was the hostility of the people looking at me from outside...And their feelings of fear. Piercing gazes, hurled stones, whips, sticks...Everything outside the cage was frightening, a source of pain...But eventually I began to realize something. I began to see their other emotions, not just their hostility and fear of me. They were the emotions of families, lovers, and friends who came to the sideshow...Emotions meant for each other.”
“Old techniques created by others will never be your own. Only what you create and experience for yourself can become your own.”
“A city far away from my homeland. There, after becoming acquainted with strangers, have I changed, perhaps? That uncontrollable impulse I harbored within me...Has it faded away now, I wonder? What exactly am I doing here in this city?”
“Life isn't about counting all the things you've lost, It's about increasing the number of important things in it.”
“I have no idea what you really want, what you're really thinking, or what the right thing to do really is. But I'm your friend. Let me stay.”
“The root of all your evil is in always relying on one of your other possibilities to get your wish. You must accept that you are the person here, now, and that you cannot become anyone else other than that person.”
“While it takes time to recover from the loss of a loved one, having an opportunity to take your mind off things helps too.”
“Leaving my mother's body, for the first time I learned the chill of cold air and the warmth of human hands. Cradled by my father and carried out of that room, for the first time, I learned the extent of the sky and the vast expanse of the world. Stepping off my everyday path, I learned my own laugh which I'd never yet heard. Beyond...Beyond this planet..To learn what I still don't know. One more step beyond... Closer to you.”
“It's times like this that I wish I could come up with an appropriate response. I hate myself for not being able to reply properly.”
“Our lives become a reality through the most meticulous calculations. Doing our best to continue living is a resolution ingrained in all of us. And this shapes the right future for us. You could say it is life’s greatest mystery. I want to observe the destination reached by the many lives that are created.”
“I believe the difference between those up there and me is the question of whether you have given up or not.”
“What's important is not what's right, but what we believe is right.”
“A castle that vanishes at the first gust of wind is worthless. A skyscraper within your mind will never fall down.”
“If I'm going to disappear no matter what, I at least want to leave them having fun and smiling.”
“The two of us aren't so different. My whole life I've desired from others. I felt bitter to the people around me and I closed off my heart...and a heart that lets nothing in..will become empty before you realize it. But in this world, you'll sometimes meet meddlesome people who will, even without asking, give you the love you need. And for someone like you or me, meeting such a person is very blissful.”
“You can only become friends by talking to people and finding out whether you get along.”
“Stop pitying yourself. Pity yourself, and life becomes an endless nightmare.”
