人の世には、道は一つということはない。道はいくつもある。

In this human world, the path is never singular. There are always multiple paths.

I wish to die as Mori Rintaro, a man of Iwami.

Wellbeing is attained by little and little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself.

-- Zeno of Citium

Excess benevolence becomes weakness. Excess righteousness becomes rigidity.

-- The 'One-Eyed Dragon' of northern Japan who carved

Know your station and know sufficiency.

-- The man who invented the Sengoku period's model of conquest

不自由を常と思えば不足なし。

-- The founder of Japan's Tokugawa shogunate

弱虫は、幸福をさえおそれるものです。綿で怪我をするんです。

-- Osamu Dazai

There is no medicine that cures what happiness cannot.

-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez