Wonderful quotes and sayings

One-line Quotes from Great Figures That Strike the Heart | A Collection of Words That Leave a Deep Impression

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Graduated from Kunitachi College of Music, Faculty of Music (now: Department of Music Culture and Education, Early Childhood Music Education major). In elementary school, my homeroom teacher was Jun Kusaba, a game researcher. After graduating from university, I worked as a kindergarten teacher for 10 years and as an after-school childcare instructor for 7 years, then took a position as a music teacher at an international school in Singapore. In addition to music education, I engaged in activities that introduced Japanese culture, traditional games, and recreational activities, working with many children. Later, through freelance writing, planning, and editing at Shogakukan, I met many delightful adults and experienced the joy of communicating and sharing. Drawing on the perspective cultivated in the field of education and my experience as an editor, I provide practical information with an emphasis on both input and output, mainly in areas related to music and children. My hobbies include instruments, singing, handicrafts, toys, drawing, traditional games, the outdoors, and books. My special skill is spinning-top tricks.
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Since discovering music during my school days, I’ve mainly listened to Japanese and Korean pop. I have experience writing articles for sites like Utaten. 2000s J-pop and 2010s K-pop were especially the soundtrack of my youth. With the mindset that “good is good,” I enjoy music across genres. Thanks to past work environments and their influence, I was exposed to lots of classic rock and kayōkyoku (Japanese popular songs), which may have broadened the scope of what I love. At RAG MUSIC, I currently focus on K-pop and J-pop. I strive to edit with a feel for the scene and an eye for hit potential.

Amid the layers of history, memorable quotes are born.

Often, the depths of those words carry the speaker’s feelings or even reflect their entire way of life.

Sometimes, words packed with hints—like the wisdom of our predecessors—can even save a life.

Precious words born from perspectives we can’t see ourselves, or from hard-won experience.

Among such wonderful sayings, I’ve picked out ones that are “simple” or just “a single phrase.”

Learning about the person behind the words and their origins will surely make you feel even more connected to them.

May they give you strength to live each day!

One-Line Quotes from Great People That Strike the Heart | A Collection of Words That Leave a Deep Impression (1–10)

Prioritizing the team’s victory over personal glory ultimately leads to individual success as well.NEW!Lionel Messi

Lionel Messi, a soccer player who represents Argentina and has won more than 40 titles including the FIFA Ballon d’Or and the UEFA Best Player in Europe Award.

Soccer is a team sport played by eleven players.

If you focus only on your own play, you may disrupt the team’s balance.

He shows us that if you first fight for the team—prioritizing winning as a whole and delivering results—it will also lead to your own individual achievements.

This applies not only to sports; when working in groups at school events or in the workplace, it might be best to act with the team’s needs before your own.

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Believe in the 1% chance, believe in yourself, and believe in what you’ve done.NEW!Yuto Horigome

At the Paris 2024 Olympics, skateboarder Yuto Horigome competed in the men’s final.

He put up a high score in his first run, but fell in his second and couldn’t improve his total.

Meanwhile, a strong American contender posted a big score, and Horigome entered his fifth and final attempt in provisional seventh place.

By landing a high-difficulty trick, he pulled off a brilliant comeback and won the gold medal.

Horigome spoke about times he nearly gave up and how he kept believing in even a 1% chance.

It’s a memorable quote that drives home the importance of never giving up.

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Since we are being kept alive, let’s simply feel grateful. We are kept alive because our lives are worth living.NEW!Jakuchō Setouchi

Jakuchō Setouchi, who also served as the chief priest of Tendai-ji Temple and as president of Tsuruga Women’s Junior College, is also known as a novelist who received awards such as the Women’s Literature Prize and the Tanizaki Jun’ichirō Prize.

Here is one of her famous sayings to remember when you hit a major wall in life or find yourself in doubt: We can never live all by ourselves.

We are kept alive by the support of those around us.

And the reason we are kept alive is that we ourselves are recognized as people of worth.

Simply being alive is happiness, and something we should fundamentally be grateful for.

Why not tuck these words quietly into your heart and keep them as a charm?

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One-line Quotes from Great Minds That Strike the Heart | A Collection of Words Etched Deep in the Soul (11–20)

We read “failure” as “success.”NEW!Katsuya Nomura

These are words by Katsuya Nomura—renowned in professional baseball as a player, manager, and strategist—expressing his view on failure.

He tells us that continual growth is vital to achieving success, and that failure can be a powerful catalyst for that growth.

Rather than giving up by focusing only on the outcome, it’s important to analyze the causes of failure and apply what you learn next time.

It’s a famous quote that conveys a positive mindset: don’t lament failure—keep moving forward without giving up.

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If you can take one step, you can take another.Todd Skinner (free climber)

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If you can take one step, you can take another. — Todd Skinner (free climber)

Todd Skinner, an American free climber active since the 1980s, was known for free-climbing numerous routes around the world, including the Salathé Wall on El Capitan.

Free climbing is a method of ascending cliffs using only minimal equipment and one’s own body.

Here are his words from someone who climbed in such a perilous style: Taking the very first step is hard in anything, but once you take that step, you can take another, and then another.

His words encourage us to have the courage to start by taking that first step.

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Unless one has eaten bread with tears, one cannot know the taste of life.NEW!Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Goethe: “Only those who have eaten their bread with tears know the taste of life.” #shorts #Goethe #Quotes

Unless one has eaten bread with tears, one cannot know the taste of life. NEW! Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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These are words that appear in Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, who was active as a poet in Germany.

They speak to the idea that life is not composed only of joyous times, but also includes deep sorrow and loneliness, and that it is precisely these experiences that lead to the richness of life.

It expresses that life’s depth is revealed through negatives such as sadness, suffering, and solitude—that they are not merely bad.

It also suggests that rather than stopping and seeing suffering as something purely negative, it is important to move forward from it.

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Do not laugh at those who have fallen. They tried to walk.NEW!Seiichiro Yonekura

Don’t laugh at someone who has fallen... — A quote by Seiichiro Yonekura

Do not laugh at those who have fallen. They tried to walk. NEW! Seiichiro Yonekura

These are the words of Seiichiro Yonekura, expressing how wonderful failure can be, even though many people laugh at it.

If you fell, it means you had been walking up to that point—failure is proof that you took action.

It also feels like a question directed at those who laugh at someone who has fallen: are they really moving forward themselves, and do they have the right to laugh at failure? It’s the kind of message that affirms the effort someone has made up to their setback and gives them the courage to keep walking.

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