“Dear nephew, as you will already have realized during our much too brief companionship, I am essentially a man of principle.”
""May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.""
- Franz Kafka
Love
"Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one's own self."
- Franz Kafka
Self-awareness
"Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self."
- Franz Kafka
Self-awareness
"Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old."
- Franz Kafka
Happiness
"“Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”"
- Franz Kafka
Happiness
"The worth of a person lies in their character, not in their looks."
- Beauty and the Beast
Integrity
"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Integrity
"Be content to act, and leave the talking to others."
- Baltasar Gracian
Integrity
"Fake people have an image to maintain. Real people just don’t care."
- Hachiman Hikigaya
Integrity
"What is right? What is wrong? In this mixed up world, deciding what is right and wrong is not easy. You can’t just go by somebody else’s rules. If you let yourself be controlled like that, you’ll just become a puppet that can’t make decisions on its own. You have to live by your rules."
- Gintoki Sakata
Integrity