Fuel for tomorrow! Change your life with words that fire you up.

10 years as a kindergarten teacher / elementary school teacher / junior and senior high school teacher / childminderkepiko
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.

Everyone faces setbacks and runs into walls at times.

In those moments, encountering words that resonate with your heart can give you new courage and hope.

Sometimes gentle and comforting, other times strong and encouraging, the power of words can be greater than we ever expect.

In this article, we introduce words that resonate—phrases that lift you up in various situations, whether you’re feeling down or want to push yourself forward.

You’re sure to find a single line that could become the spark to change your life.

Fuel for tomorrow! Change your life with words that fire you up (81–90)

Even if my life is a losing battle, I want to fight until the very end.Vincent van Gogh

That’s a very powerful quote.

There probably aren’t many people who choose to fight a losing battle when they know they’ll lose.

No one likes losing, and working hard only to lose is painful.

But it seems Van Gogh wanted to live his life to the very end, even knowing it was a losing battle.

How about you? You never really know if it’s a losing battle until the very end.

Van Gogh wasn’t appreciated during his lifetime, but he became very famous after his death.

Perhaps that’s because he kept believing in himself and lived true to that belief until the end.

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If you ever hear a voice within you say, ‘You can’t paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.Vincent van Gogh

This is a quote that gives us courage when starting something new.

Everyone begins from a place of not being able to do it.

But if you avoid doing it just because you can’t, you’ll never be able to do it for the rest of your life.

If you want to take that path and master it, you have to start by trying.

By continuing, you’ll build confidence, and before you know it, that voice saying “I can’t” will fall silent.

Don’t lose to your own weakness—go challenge your dreams and goals.

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To know life, love many things.Vincent van Gogh

Love comes in many forms.

Saying “I love you” in words, watching over someone in silence, wanting to understand something deeply.

I think the ways we love and the objects of our love differ from person to person.

Yet that feeling is something we are naturally born with as human beings.

So when you want to understand life, why not start by directing your interest and attention to the things around you and trying to love them? As in the words attributed to Van Gogh, by doing so, you may naturally come to see what life is all about.

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