Quotes of Kōbō Abe

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Do you shovel to survive, or survive to shovel?

- Kōbō Abe

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“ He didn't realize that love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark. ”

- J.K. Rowling

“ If you don't run your own life, somebody else will. ”

- John Atkinson

“ Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence. ”

- Ovid

“ I wonder if you have noticed a rather rummy thing about it viz. that it is everywhere. You can't get away from it. Love, I mean. Wherever you go, there it is, buzzing along in every class of life. Quite remarkable. ”

- P. G. Wodehouse

“ Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. ”

- Martin Luther King Jr.

“ The one that’s different often has the odds stacked against them but usually ends up with the biggest rewards so it’s always worth it. ”

- TorronLee Dewar

“ Anything under God's control is never out of control. ”

- Charles Swindoll

“ If life gives you lemons, make lemonade. ”

- Unknown

“ It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not. ”

- Andre Gide

“ Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice. ”

- Michael Novak

“ Always go with the choice that scares you the most, because that’s the one that is going to help you grow. ”

- Unknown

“ Looks like to me we all begin and end in the same place. Perhaps we could love each other a little bit more along the way. ”

- Clyde Lee Dennis

“ All things are difficult before they are easy. ”

- Thomas Fuller

“ What I stand for is what I stand on. ”

- Wendell Berry

“ Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality. ”

- Earl Nightingale

“ Everyone's time is limited. What matters most is to focus on what matters most. ”

- Roy Bennett

“ Rise as a human being live as a legend work as a Messiah and you shall see the bright glorious change all around you. ”

- Abhijit Naskar

“ We accept some black people, receive some white people, embrace some Asian people, and welcome some mixed people, but God commands us to love all people. ”

- Matshona Dhliwayo

“ The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe, yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope. ”

- Timothy Keller

“ Every risk bears with it the seeds of an opportunity: failure success, fall rise, and setback comeback. ”

- JOHN TASKINSOY

“ Love shapes who you are in many ways. Its presence or absence in our youth impacts our adulthood, which impacts our future generations; the cycle has to be restarted somewhere. ”

- Hani Selim

“ I love you and it’s getting worse. ”

- Joseph E. Morris

“ Though lovers be lost love shall not. ”

- Dylan Thomas