Joy Can Be Real Only If People Look Upon Their Life As A Service, And Have A Definite Object In Life

Sometimes it's not you who choose your friends, but rather you are chosen.

This will never get old.

Memories don't need years to develop. They are like photographs - caught in an instant and stored for a lifetime.

Da-da-da-da itaewon!

The topic of suicide is near and dear to me. Please watch this documentary, Saving 10000, and reblog if you can. Suicide prevention awareness is extremely lacking here (Japan), and if watching this means that one person - Japanese or other - rethinks their decision and gets some help then it is worth it. If you are thinking about suicide now, please talk to someone. If you don't have anyone to talk to, please keep trying until you find someone who will listen. Don't give up on yourself. There is hope and a purpose for you. The video is subtitled in Japanese and English. この動画は「Saving 10000」というドキュメンタリーです。日本人の自殺についてのです。皆さん、見てくださいませんか。自殺の予防するためも、reblogしてください。このドキュメンタリーを見たら、自殺しないようにしようと思ってくる人がいるかもしれませんので、お願いします。そして、今動画を見ている方の中で自殺をしようと思っている人もいるなら、誰かに話をかけて悩みを相談してください。誰も聞いてくれないと思ったら、負けずに悩みが聞こえる人を探してください。自分のことをあきらめないでください。あきらめるのはまだ早いです。生活と人生はどんな状況でも、あなたの存在は大切です。あなたの人生の希望も目的もあります。 動画は日本語と英語の字幕があります。

You can’t stay the same. If you’re a musician and a singer, you have to change, that’s the way it works.

Van Morrison

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Oscar Wilde

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

- Robert Frost

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

Abraham Maslow

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.

Erma Bombeck