"人と人との関係のすべてに、名前をつけることなど可能だろうかと桃は訝る。名前がそんなに大事だろうか。"
— 江國香織 “はだかんぼうたち”
"The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat."
— Lily Tomlin
"When I was in the scene, I hardly paid it any mind. I never stopped to think of it as something that would make a lasting impression, certainly never imagined that eighteen years later I would recall it in such detail."
— Haruki Murakami “Norwegian Wood”
"Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of sufferings."
— Paulo Coelho “By the River Piedra I sat down and wept”
"Money may not buy happiness, but I’d rather cry in a Jaguar than on a bus."
— Françoise Sagan
"ひとが意識に目覚めた最初の時から意識が消えるまで、最も熱心に求めてやまないものは、何といってもやはり幸福の感情である。"
— ヒルティ 『幸福論』
"私は「愛する」ということの理想的なあり方は、相手が何をしようと、何をもっていようと、どう考えていようと、相手のありのままの状態を、丸ごとそのまま受け入れることだと思います。それはつまり、相手の尊厳を大事にすることであり、「態度価値」に限りなく近いものです。"
— 姜尚中 『続・悩む力』
"極言すれば、「私の人生」とは「私の過去」のことであり、「吾輩は過去である」といってもいいのです。"
— 姜尚中 『続・悩む力』
"この無限の空間の永遠の沈黙は私を戦慄させる"
— パスカル
"Opportunity is nothing without action."
— Jim Yong Kim
"Unconditional Positive regard"
— Carl Rogers
"It’s his fault that he’s such a guy that I don’t like him"
— Olga Kosykh
"We start to get old when we substitute “passion” for “wisdom” in our lives"
— Paulo Coelho
"I find the whole concept of being ‘sexy’ embarrassing and confusing. If I do an interview with photographs people desperately want to change me - dye my hair blonder, pluck my eyebrows, give me a fringe. Then there’s the choice of clothes. I know everyone wants a picture of me in a mini-skirt. But that’s not me. I feel uncomfortable. I’d never go out in a mini-skirt. It’s nothing to do with protecting the Hermione image. I wouldn’t do that. Personally, I don’t actually think it’s even that sexy. What’s sexy about saying, ‘I’m here with my boobs out and a short skirt, have a look at everything I’ve got?’ My idea of sexy is that less is more. The less you reveal the more people can wonder."
— Emma Watson
