George Ohsawa Quotes

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George Ohsawa

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• As nature made every man with a nose and eyes of his own, she gave him a character of his own, too; and yet we, O foolish race! must try our very best to ape some one or two of our neighbors, whose ideas fit us no more than their breeches!

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Men
  • Trying
  • Character

• I have a deep compassion for the idea that it's okay to be myself. The idea that anything 'other' is bad and wrong and broken is so wildly off base.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Bad
  • Myself
  • Deep

• Often what is deeply offensive to Chinese-Americans that they are really well-represented in medicine, and yet on all these doctors' shows you hardly see any Chinese-American faces.

  

  Iris Chang
  • American
  • Chinese
  • Medicine

• It was the horse and buggy days... horses were our life.

  

  R. M. Williams
  • Life
  • Horse
  • Buggy

• I've read my grandmother's memoirs and she served as a nurse during World War II. What they had to do was incredible.

  

  Jessica Brown Findlay

• The characters that I have on Twitter have very little resemblance to me, the person who's writing them.

  

  Michael Ian Black
  • Character
  • Persons
  • Resemblance

• If I had a dream it would be to think, What would it be like for everybody to have the kind of health care I had? What would that feel like? How would that be, to live in that world? Because I'll tell you, to be really, really sick, and to not have money. That is terrifying. And in my opinion, a travesty.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Money
  • Dream
  • Health

• If you have love, you can correct people without saying anything to them because love is a supreme intelligence.

  

  Nirmala Srivastava
  • Love
  • Wisdom
  • Yoga

• We find that the more a cultivated reason devotes itself to the aim of enjoying life and happiness, the further does man get away from true contentment.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Life
  • Find
  • Devotes

• Lift up your hearts, my brothers, high, higher! And don't forget about your legs either! Lift up your legs as well, you good dancers, and better yet--stand also on your heads!

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Forget
  • Heads
  • Lift Up

• My morals are important to me.

  

  Hunter Parrish
  • Important
  • Moral

• This faith transforms the whirlwind of despair into a warm and reviving breeze of hope. The words of a motto which a generation ago were commonly found on the wall in the homes of devout persons need to be etched on our hearts: Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. There was no one there.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Hope
  • Faith
  • Generation

• Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Food
  • Sweet
  • Bitter

• Devour life without chewing, and pray that you don’t choke.

  

  Aurora Rose Reynolds
  • Life
  • Pray
  • Chewing

• Chewing transforms even toxins into nutritive substances.

  

  George Ohsawa
  • Transforms
  • Chewing
  • Substances