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

• I got my career start by first creating my own free, independent lifestyle in my own house out in the country. There I taught myself to make and later design furniture. I have continued to go my own way, always consciously needing to feel that I am moving forward.

  

  David Trubridge
  • Country
  • Moving
  • Design

• Cold exactitude is not art... The so-called consciousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring. People like that, if they could, would work with the same minute attention on the back of their canvas.

  

  Eugene Delacroix
  • Art
  • Attention
  • Consciousness

• I foresee it and yet I hardly ever carry it out as I foresee it. It transforms itself by the actual paint. I don't in fact know very often what the paint will do, and it does many things which are very much better than I could make it do.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Paint
  • Carry
  • Transforms

• Chewing transforms even toxins into nutritive substances.

  

  George Ohsawa
  • Transforms
  • Chewing
  • Substances