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Philosophical literature · Religious literature

A mind full of preconceived ideas, subjective intentions, or habits is not open to things as they are.

1970

★ 1.1

Philosophical literature · Religious literature

The mind of the beginner is empty, free of the habits of the expert, ready to accept, to doubt, and open to all the possibilities.

1970

★ 1.1

Philosophical literature · Religious literature

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few.

1970

★ 1.1

Philosophical literature · Religious literature

If a warrior is not unattached to life and death, he will be of no use whatsoever.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

1716

★ 1.2

Don't get rid of negative emotion, but just use it... Like the salt in your food.

2016

★ 1.3

Though I grieve, there is no help; Vainly I long to see her. Men tell me that my wife is In the mountains of Hagai- Thither I go, Toiling along the stony path; But it avails me not, For of my wife, as she lived in this world, I find not the faintest shadow.

Kakinomoto no Hitomaro

759

★ 1.9

The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.

Masanobu Fukuoka

1975

★ 1.9

It is a terrible shame for me-I came back, still alive, without having won the war.

1997

★ 1.9

Ceaselessly the river flows, and yet the water is never the same, while in the still pools the shifting foam gathers and is gone, never staying for a moment. Even so is man and his habitation.

1212

★ 1.9

The pleasantest of all diversions is to sit alone under the lamp, a book spread out before you, and to make friends with people of a distant past you have never known.

1332

★ 1.9

Autobiography and memoir

A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.

1986

★ 1.9

Philosophical literature · Religious literature

Singlemindedness is all-powerful.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

1716

★ 2.1

Money is not for saving.

1999

★ 2.1

If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.

Haruki Murakami

Kafka on the Shore · 2002

★ 2.1

If you hire only those people whom you understand, the company will never get better people than you are.

1982

★ 3.5

Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?

Haruki Murakami

Sputnik Sweetheart · 1999

★ 3.5

Philosophical literature · Religious literature

What we call "I" is just a swinging door which moves when we inhale and when we exhale.

1970

★ 3.6

One loses joy and happiness in the attempt to possess them.

Masanobu Fukuoka

1975

★ 3.6

No matter how honestly you open up to someone, there are still some things you can’t reveal.

Haruki Murakami

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage · 2013

★ 3.6

There is nothing in the whole world so painful as feeling that one is not liked. It always seems to me that people who hate me must be suffering from some strange form of lunacy.

1002

★ 3.7

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