The ritual of our daily lives permeate our very bodies.
BANANA YOSHIMOTOOver and over, we begin again.
More Banana Yoshimoto Quotes
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Although I was raised with love, I was always lonely.
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Everything in life has some good in it. And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more–it’s sad, but that’s the truth.
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Everyone lives the way she knows best. What I mean by ‘their happiness’ is living a life untouched as much as possible by the knowledge that we are really, all of us, alone. That’s not a bad thing.
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Again and again I will suffer; again and again I will get back on my feet. I will not be defeated.
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But I have my life, I’m living it. It’s twisted, exhausting, uncertain, and full of guilt, but nonetheless, there’s something there.
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Once you’ve recognized your own limits, you’ve raised yourself to a higher level of being, since you’re closer to the real you.
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On nights like this when the air is so clear, you end up saying things you ordinarily wouldn’t. Without even noticing what you’re doing, you open up your heart and just start talking to the person next to you-you talk as if you have no audience but the glittering stars, far overhead.
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I spent most of my time thinking, because I didn’t have enough energy to do anything else.
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If you don’t say what you’re thinking, you end up lying when you really need to speak up.
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No matter what, I want to continue living with the awareness that I will die. Without that, I am not alive.
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People aren’t overcome by situations or outside forces. Defeat comes from within.
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I really believe that no matter how old people get, they tend to change in certain ways depending on how people treat them – they change their colors.
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Every time I look into his eyes I just want to take the ice cream or whatever I’ve got in my hand and rub it into his face. That’s how much I like him.
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The sky was incredibly far away, and beautiful enough to make a person wonder why our hearts are never so free.
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Inching one’s way along a steep cliff in the dark: on reaching the highway, one breathes a sigh of relief. Just when one can’t take any more, one sees the moonlight. Beauty that seems to infuse itself into the heart: I know about that
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