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Knowing it will surely save your heart… Short quotes to remember when times are tough 10 years as a kindergarten teacher / elementary school teacher / junior and senior high school teacher / childminder kepiko 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 for 10 years as a kindergarten teacher and for 7 years as an after-school childcare instructor, then took a post as a music teacher at an international school in Singapore. In addition to music education, I also engaged in activities that shared Japanese culture, traditional games, and recreational play, working with many children. Afterwards, through freelance writing, planning, and editing work at Shogakukan, I met many delightful adults and experienced the joy of communicating and conveying ideas. Leveraging the perspective cultivated in educational settings and my experience as an editor, I aim to deliver practical information—focusing on fields related to music and children—that values both input and output. Hobbies include instruments, singing, handcrafts, toys, drawing, traditional play, the outdoors, books, DIY, and crafts. Special skill: spinning-top tricks.
The more things we’re involved with in daily life—school, work, family, love—the more worries we tend to have, right?
Sometimes we may even feel so distressed that it seems like our hearts might break.
So this time, we’re introducing memorable quotes from great and famous people that we’d like you to recall during tough times.
These are all words that can support you or give you a push when you just can’t solve things on your own.
They’re all short, so be sure to jot them down and remember them!
Table of Contents Knowing it will surely save your heart… Short quotes to remember when times are tough Beyond the clouds, the sky is always blue. Louisa May Alcott Do not compare yourself to anyone else in this world. Bill Gates To look squarely at yourself as you are—that is strength. Taro Okamoto Laughed at, laughed at, and grow stronger. Osamu Dazai If you don’t praise and acknowledge yourself, you won’t be saved. Akihiro Miwa Only in the darkness can you see the stars. Martin Luther King Jr. If you want to get out of your struggles, learn to relax and not be so tense. Shigeta Saitō All misfortunes are nothing but stepping stones to the future. Thoreau Happiness is always decided by your own heart. Mitsuo Aida If you’ve done the best you can, worrying won’t improve the situation. I worry about many things, but I don’t worry about water overflowing from a dam. Walt Disney If you can learn from failure, that failure is a success. Malcolm Forbes It doesn’t matter how slowly you go, as long as you do not stop. Confucius Do you realize that your life is far more valuable than gold? Bob Marley Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy. Anne Frank Every event has meaning. The work of life is to understand that meaning. Suzanne Somers If you keep looking down, you won’t be able to find a rainbow. Sir Charles Spencer “Charlie” Chaplin He who runs away can fight another day. Demosthenes No one anywhere becomes happy through envy. Baltasar Gracián Think not of today’s failures, but of the successes that may come tomorrow. Helen Keller There are, of course, days when your heart hurts. Ma Rainey Do what you can, and then just worry quietly in your heart about the rest. Things will only turn out the way they’re going to anyway. Katsu Kaishū The key to resisting stress is being moved—above all else. And it’s also the secret to a long life. Shigeta Saitō Even if everything is lost, the future still remains. Christian Nestell Bovee Even the hard days lead to days you can smile. Kazuko Watanabe No one is born with a strong heart. Ken Watanabe The only people who never make mistakes are those who do nothing. Theodore Roosevelt While there is life, there is hope. Miguel de Cervantes If you worry about what you don’t have, you’ll waste what you do have. Ken Keyes Jr. There are no solutions in life. What exists in life is only a force in motion. We have to create that force. The solutions will follow afterward. Saint-Exupéry Each person has their own unique charm and talents. No two people are the same. Therefore, you must not compare a particular person with others. Joseph Murphy It’s just a bad day, not a bad life. Johnny Depp Since we are being kept alive, let’s simply feel grateful. We are kept alive because our lives are worth living. Jakuchō Setouchi There’s no need to look back. There are countless paths ahead of you. Lu Xun Unless one has eaten bread with tears, one cannot know the taste of life. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If you don’t give up on yourself, there is no such thing as losing in life. Shigeta Saitō Happiness is always decided by your own heart. Mitsuo Aida Do not laugh at those who have fallen. They tried to walk. Seiichiro Yonekura It’s never too late to become the person you wanted to be. George Eliot It’s sheer folly to force yourself to fit into an uncomfortable environment. Kazlaser Being alive itself is, by nature, happiness. Kazlaser There’s no such thing as a person who’s liked by everyone in this world. After all, there will always be people who dislike those who are liked by everyone. Keiko Hanamori If we were just one minute earlier, we could save one more person. Calvin Coolidge Beneath mud and earth lies solid rock; above clouds and mist shines the sun. At the height of discontent, there is still fortune, nor is hope absent. Kanzo Uchimura Earthquakes will strike again and again. To prevent severe damage, we will build parks and roads. Shinpei Gotō If you endure, you will surely become a strong person. Senichi Hoshino What Japan gained after losing everything was hope… It planted the seeds of hope within us, who had been captivated by wealth. Ryu Murakami We need to make an effort to avert our eyes from misfortune. Kazlaser Humans will end up happy anyway. Kazlaser You can just be yourself. Mother Teresa Knowing it will surely save your heart… Short quotes to remember when times are tough (1–10) Beyond the clouds, the sky is always blue. Louisa May Alcott When you hear the names Mayu Hotta, Sawa Nimura, Mei Hata, and Neru Nagahama… yes, you think of a Reiwa-era “Little Women.” Works inspired by Alcott’s novel—stories about four sisters—have been created in every era, serving as mirrors that reflect their times.
Considering that Alcott only began to come into the spotlight in her mid-thirties, this famous line might have been her way of acknowledging her own years of hardship.
“No matter how difficult your situation is now, a brighter day will eventually come.” Remember these words whenever your spirits are low.
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Do not compare yourself to anyone else in this world. Bill Gates Here are some famous quotes from Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft and a successful entrepreneur.
Some of you may have felt discouraged, worrying that you’re not doing as well as others.
However, your path is different from theirs, and so are your pace and your goals.
When it comes to your growth, it might be more important to compare yourself with who you were yesterday and move forward even a little.
You may notice that you’ve made progress when you look at yourself compared to a short while ago.
Rather than comparing yourself to others, let’s value our own path.
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To look squarely at yourself as you are—that is strength. Taro Okamoto Expo ’70 in Osaka.
I didn’t actually go, but even just from the news, the feverish excitement was incredible.
People supposedly waited for hours just to see a moon rock.
The monument that symbolizes that 1970 Expo is the Tower of the Sun.
Some of you might honestly be thinking, “What on earth is that?” The artist who designed it is Taro Okamoto—a legend who needs no introduction.
The “freedom” that runs through his bold, unflinching words goes beyond what ordinary people can imagine.
If you let your thoughts reach that far, his words can be truly encouraging.
How do you take them?
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Laughed at, laughed at, and grow stronger. Osamu Dazai For many people, their first encounter with Osamu Dazai was reading “Run, Melos!” in their middle school textbook.
The well-known masterpieces “The Setting Sun” and “No Longer Human” also offer glimpses into the depths of the human heart.
Which of Dazai’s works do you like? Though his writing is often dark and seems far removed from the word “laughter,” it’s precisely because these words come from him that they make us think, “Maybe there’s something to this.” The phrase “to be laughed at” here carries a nuance close to “to fail.” It feels like an encouraging maxim that says, “Don’t brood over one or two failures.”
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If you don’t praise and acknowledge yourself, you won’t be saved. Akihiro Miwa Akihiro Miwa, who appeared on the popular talk show “Aura no Izumi,” is also well known among younger people.
Perhaps because he did voice acting for a Studio Ghibli film, he himself even starts to feel like a character straight out of a Ghibli movie.
Back in his younger days, he worked in show business under the name Akihiro Maruyama.
This quote, while evoking the strong image of Miwa, also carries a certain gentleness.
Everyone has times when they lose confidence in themselves, right? Sometimes it’s necessary to ‘praise yourself,’ too!
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Only in the darkness can you see the stars. Martin Luther King Jr. An American minister known by the name of Dr.
King, he is also famous for his “I have a dream” speech.
Some English textbooks include an excerpt from that speech, so some of you may have seen it.
The true meaning of his words is largely left to the audience, but however you interpret them, they are sure to encourage us.
The deeper the darkness, the more beautiful the stars.
By the way, the film Selma, executive produced by Steven Spielberg, depicts Dr.
King’s life.
Do watch it if you have the chance!
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If you want to get out of your struggles, learn to relax and not be so tense. Shigeta Saitō I’d like to introduce a famous quote by Shigeta Saito, a Japanese psychiatrist and author.
Many of us have felt stress in our daily lives—at work, at school, and so on.
At times like that, please remember these words.
They can be an important key to lightening the burden on your heart.
When you feel stressed, you might be able to relax by pausing for a moment and switching your mindset to, “This is the time to do this.” Let’s not forget to enjoy ourselves and keep moving forward with a positive attitude.
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