Hello. Here is a list of 14 quotes that I liked and saved while reading How Do You Live? book by Genzaburo Yoshino. I hope you will like them too. By the way, I am Deepak Kundu, an avid book reader, quotes collector and blogger.
How Do You Live? Quotes
- There may be nothing more deep-rooted and stubborn than the human tendency to look at and think of things with themselves at the center. – Quote from How Do You Live? book by Genzaburo Yoshino
- If it means anything at all to live in this world, it’s that you must live your life like a true human being and feel just what you feel. This is not something that anyone can teach from the sidelines, no matter how great a person they may be. – Quote from How Do You Live? book by Genzaburo Yoshino
- You must make a habit of thinking honestly, with your own experience as a foundation, and if someone fakes this part, no matter what kind of great-sounding things they think or say, they are all lies in the end. – Quote from How Do You Live? book by Genzaburo Yoshino
- There are lots of people in the world who act just for appearance’s sake – in order to seem great in the eyes of others. That type of person worries first about how they are reflected in other people’s eyes, and they inadvertently end up neglecting their true selves, as they really are. I hope you don’t become that sort of person. – Quote from How Do You Live? book by Genzaburo Yoshino
- As you make your way toward adulthood, you will eventually come to understand that to lead a life of poverty is often to go about one’s life feeling inferior to others. It’s easy to catch oneself feeling ashamed of one’s shabby clothes, squalid home, or coarse food. – Quote from How Do You Live? book by Genzaburo Yoshino
- A human being who doesn’t understand the essentials of being human, is a pitiful fool. – Quote from How Do You Live? book by Genzaburo Yoshino
- The sad truth is that in today’s world, the people who will be in the most trouble if they get hurt are the people who are in the greatest danger of getting hurt. – Quote from How Do You Live? book by Genzaburo Yoshino
- We are all human beings, so if we can’t all live a life that is really human, something is wrong. A society that doesn’t allow that is wrong. Nobody can deny this, as long as they have an honest heart. Today, no matter how shameful it seems, our society is not there yet. – Quote from How Do You Live? book by Genzaburo Yoshino
- Win or lose, heroes are heroes! Actually, real heroes are great even when they lose. – Quote from How Do You Live? book by Genzaburo Yoshino
- When I think how sometimes people can be brave enough to overcome any fear, any hardship, it gives me a feeling I can hardly describe. To charge right at the things that are painful and difficult, break through to the other side, and take pleasure in that – don’t you think that’s truly fantastic? – Quote from How Do You Live? book by Genzaburo Yoshino
- Among those we call heroic and great, the only people we can truly respect are those who have helped to advance the human race. And among all the achievements of these people, only the ones that follow the flow of this advancing current have true value. – Quote from How Do You Live? book by Genzaburo Yoshino
- A heroic spirit that’s not devoted to human progress may be empty and meaningless, but goodness that is lacking in the spirit of heroism is often empty as well. – Quote from How Do You Live? book by Genzaburo Yoshino
- A person’s conduct was made up of actions that, once done, could not be undone, and that was a truly scary thing. Even if nobody else knew what you’d done, you yourself knew, and what’s more, even if you could somehow forget completely, once you’d done a thing, there was no changing that fact. There was absolutely no way afterward to deny to yourself that you were that sort of person. – Quote from How Do You Live? book by Genzaburo Yoshino
- When you have made a mistake, to recognize it bravely and to suffer for it is something that in all of heaven and earth, only humans can do. – Quote from How Do You Live? book by Genzaburo Yoshino