Yet when, one day, standing on the outskirts of Yokohama town, bristling with its display of modern miscellanies, I watched the sunset in your southern sea, and saw its peace and majesty among your pine-clad hills,—with the great Fujiyama growing f...
It is a strange thing how sometimes merely to talk honestly of God, even if it is only to articulate our feelings of separation and confusion, can bring peace to our spirits. You thought you were unhappy because this or that was off in your relations...
The formula I've figured out: Stop being so damn picky and let go of the mental image of an ideal; talk to more strangers, because it builds confidence and helps you feel more connected; be open to every opportunity, and when you do meet someone you ...
What did you learn?” “Letting go of my past, because it’s all soot, nothing is left of it, if I wandered there for long I would be running in circles in the dark, no hope, no life. And if I chose to live in those places rebuilt from ashes, I ca...
A lesson in bringing about true changes of mind and heart comes from a Japanese functionary. By day, he crunched numbers that showed his country was approaching imminent energy crisis and helped to craft policy. By night, he weaved a novel in which a...
The decadence which did occur in the Islamic world belongs to a much later period of Islamic history than is usually claimed. This fact would be fully substantiated if the integral history of Islamic science and civilization were to be written one da...
One race, Many cultures, One place.
An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic.
Horizontal and vertical sprawl... are the dinosaurs of an ending fossil-fuel age of synthetic culture.
The amount of culture going on in a small country like Israel is amazing.
The number one way culture is shaped is by what leaders model.
Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.
I don't understand anything about America's culture.
The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.
I really hold on to my culture because it is what made me.
There is no privacy in our culture anymore, so I have to try and carve that out for myself, but I'm OK with it.
Being Indian is not blood as much as it is culture.
The whole culture of my background was deeply Conservative.
I grew up in a wonderful blend of a lot of old culture.
I'm a product of Russian culture, but I never felt it was my country.
Healing requires a legitimated, credible and culturally appropriate system.
