“The freedom to do better than you do now, to be better than you are now. The spirit did not create us perfectly good. She gave us the freedom to keep trying to be better everyday.”
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“The freedom to do better than you do now, to be better than you are now. The spirit did not create us perfectly good. She gave us the freedom to keep trying to be better everyday.”
“No matter what I attempt, even if it's the most simple of tasks, it always ends in failure. Unfortunately, I find that my life is one big regret after another. Yet, after all these years, I still don't know when to give up. Is it my fault to keep trying when the results are always the same? Is it impossible for me to make things right? Even if I'd try to give up, I don't think I could. It's not in my nature to submit in the face of disappointment. In the end, I guess I'm just a glutton for punishment. I really am an idiot.”
“The balance between hope and despair keeps itself to zero. When was it you told me that? I understand what you mean now, I did save quite a few people, but in exchange hatred and jealousy filled my heart, I even hurt my best friend. Someone has to be cursed to balance out a wish for someone else's happiness.”
“From the perspective of others I am part of the world, but when I observe the world from my perspective I am nowhere to be found. To observe is to create perspective. I can never cease to be the point of origin from my perspective. I observe that which is not myself. This is the first principle to find.”
“If you run into a wall and pretend it doesn't exist, you'll never make progress. The wall will never change, so you're the one who has to change.”
“A certain scripture mentions that humans are superior to angels. Why? Because there are people who know of evil, but do not become evil. It's different from angels, who know only of good since birth. Humans have evil, but can live as good, so they are superior to angels, who know only good.”
“I want to hear who you are, not what you have.”
“I'm no saint. A sense of duty, a sense of righteousness - they're just nuisances in life.”
“I want to live... I want to hold something in my hands and feel its warmth.”
“If you're felling like there's nowhere you belong... That you're trapped in a small world. It's those feelings that drive us beyond our world.”
“There are some things in life that will only be understood through words.”
“You yourself have to change first, or nothing will change for you.”
“People's feelings are memories that transcend time.”
“How you change is up to you.”
“If we're unable to climb down the mountain, then we won't know whether there's another mountain to climb up.”
“No single thing is perfect by itself. That's why we're born to attract other things to make up for what we lack. I think we start walking in the right direction only after we start getting our counterparts beside us.”
“Bare emotions tell the truth much eloquently than any justification.”
“The past and the future are not the same, but they're not completely separate either.”
“For people like us, we do not have a choice over the environment we're in, but we get to decide what we will make of it and what path we will take from there.”
“I pretended it was someone else's fault that nothing happened. But I was wrong. If you put your mind to it, you can change the color of your world in an instant.”