Current mood:	mellow
Current music:	affirmation - savage garden
Entry tags:	quotes

AFFIRMATION
Technically still on hiatus.  Interrupting said hiatus for a bunch of quotes and random stuff which have become very dear to me:

"All life is sorrowful." - Buddhism, Four Noble Truths

"What we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth." - Azar Nafisi (from Reading Lolita in Tehran)

"The beauty of a rose is knowing that it is going to die." - ?? (I'm sure I got the quote wrong, too.)

"Having eyes, but not seeing beauty; having ears, but not hearing music; having minds, but not perceiving truth; having hearts that are never moved and therefore never set on fire.  These are the things to fear." - Sosaku Kobayashi, Headmaster of Tomoe Gakuen

Live to love.  Love to live.

NYC was good.  Buying tons and tons of manga, good.  Meeting unyuu, awesome.  8DDD  Buying fabric, score.  More later.

Totto-chan made me cry.  T_T  Reading it has changed my life.  Kobayashi was an absolutely admirable and incredible man; I can't help but wonder what he would have to say about education nowadays and the state of the world.
Children are really amazing.  I want to become a teacher more than ever.

This journal's in desperate need of a new name, new layout, new user info, and new intro post.  I'm really sorry I haven't been commenting.