Quotes

1. "Nothing in this world is coincidence. Everything is hitsuzen (inevitability)."

2. "For everything you wish, you have to pay an equal price in return. You can't get more or give more. You can't get less or give less. It must be in balance, or else there will be chaos."

3. "Habit, a need to be conscious of it. And if a person does not want to get rid of it, then it cannot be rid of."

4. "Good and bad are human concepts, so something that is not human cannot be classified as neither good nor bad."

5. "If you believe in it, it is real. If you do not, it is fiction."

6. "Even family are still other people. Other than being related by blood, is there any other relation? Aside from yourself, everyone else will always be other people."

7. "Names are important. Names have power. It doesn't matter whether it's living or not. Once you have given something a name, you have embodied it with that same amount of power."

8. "Normal? What is normal? To do only what the masses do? What is the benifit of that? And what is the problem with adopting a custom that is abnormal if it has no negative effect on the world at large?"

9. "Living things are restrained by Chains: The laws of nature, the flow of time, the vessel known as your 'body', and the existence called your mind. The one chain that people can wield: WORDS."

10. "Instead of regretting what we cannot do, it is better to do what one can. For example, what we do has nothing to do with results and so we must forge forwards."

11. "No matter how small the problem is, how small the thing is, it will always effect the people around you."

12. "Our relationship has been formed. No matter how trivial the meeting and the incidents that follow may seem, a relationship is made. Even if it is for a short amount of time, a knot that has been tied does not unravel. It means that during your lifetime, every incident that passes has meaning. The meeting between you and I also has meaning, so remember it."

13. "Words, once it has left your mouth, it cannot be uncalled. It cannot be nullified. People don’t understand how strongly they’re tied down because of it. But they continue to use that lock. Words are something living and sometimes, it can even tie down a person’s life."

14. "When one sacrifices oneself to help another, it could actually be painful to the person being helped, especially when that person is of importance to them."

15. "Often times, people simply deny the existence of what they do not understand, and anyone who tells them otherwise is a liar. What they don’t know stays ‘unexplained’ and they are happy with that. "

16. "The rock, once it starts to roll down the hill, it won't stop. It will keep rolling until the end of the road."

17. "Sometimes, even when the heart forgets, the body still remembers."

18. "Everybody relates to others and shares something with them. That's why we can never truly be free.That's what makes us feel joy, sadness and love."

19. "The wishes can be granted if you wish them with all your strength."

20. "Once you notice something, you can never return to the time when you did not notice it."

21. "Once a boy saw a dream. Twirling, twirling, flying, flying. So happy in his freedom. The boy believed himself to be a butterfly. But when he opened his eyes, he was no butterfly, only a mere human. Then he thought to himself: did I just dream I was a butterfly or is this a dream as well? Maybe I am but a dream that is deamed by the butterfly."

22. "There are things in this world that defy explanation. Mankind will always notice it no matter what. It is always so. But the imagination, people, mankind, they are more strange than anything else."

23. "Killing people is something I will never do. Because no matter what, the killer is heavily burdened. So heavy that it will destroy you. People would come after you. Anyone who is aware of this, will not kill."

24. "The world looks wide but is really narrow. Sight, hearing, touch, feeling, there are limits to all of these. The world is created by this."

25. "Words aren't limited to binding only oneself. Words don't only bind yourself, they bind other people too."

26. "You don't know that. If you start worrying about failing again, you'll never do anything. Regrets are for after something happens."

27. "Humans must think about living on. And, must also understand death. Most important, we must learn to understand the truth."

28. "Words are beasts. Chains can be used for more than tying down. They can be used to connect, and tie together. Looking forward and speaking positively makes all the difference."

29. "Sincerity with respect to yourself, no matter what your objective, no matter who you are, if you are going to do something or not do something, that is a promise to yourself. And the one who keeps the promise, or breaks the promise, is you. No one else can be burdened with holding you to a promise that’s made to yourself."

30. "Everything lives by blending interconnecting and mutually influencing one another. Even a merely trivial meeting brings about changes of heart and body."

31. "Because you were the one who felt the pain, then you understand the true happiness."

32. "The one thing that can change a person, is meeting another."

33. "Wishes, surely if you keep wishing, they'll come true. That's how strong the power of people's wishing is. But, if you wish for someone's unhappiness, you'll also become unhappy proportionally to the strength of the wish."

34. "Even if we're worlds and worlds apart, if we're connected by smiles our dreams will be connected as well."

35. "Everyone is working with all their might, on things they can do."

36. "To change yourself, means to change the future."

37. "The place that calms the heart. Wanting to go back to that sort of place somewhere, it becomes a wonderful season."