How Do You Live?

You take many things from the world, but I wonder what you will give back in return?

We have the power to decide on our own who we will be. Therefore, we will make mistakes. However- We have the power to decide on our own who we will be. There, we can also recover from mistakes.

When I think how sometimes people can be brave enough to overcome any fear, any hardship, it gives me a feeling I can hardly describe. To charge right at the things that are painful and difficult, break through to the other side, and take pleasure in that - don't you think that's truly fantastic? The greater the suffering, the greater the joy in overcoming it.

That is why I think the first, most basic step in these matters is to start with the moments of real feeling in your life, when your heart is truly moved, and to think about the meaning of those. The things that you feel most deeply, from the very bottom of your heart, will never deceive you in the slightest. And so at all times, in all things, whatever feelings you may have, consider these carefully.

It should go without saying that the true worth of a person doesn't depend on that person's clothes or house or food.

But between the people who produce things over and above what they consume, and send them out into the world, and the people who don't produce anything and who do nothing but consume, which are the great human beings? Which are the important human beings? If you ask yourself this, it's not much of a puzzle, is it?

If it means anything at all to live in this world, it's that you must live your life like a true human being and feel just what you feel.

I think there has to come a time when everyone in the world treats each other as if they were good friends. Since humanity has come so far, I think now we will definitely be able to make it to such a place. So I think I want to become a person who can help that happen.

Still, I can become a good person. I can become a good person and create one good person for the world. And I think that if I can just do that, then I might become a person who can create even more than that.

To appreciate art, you must use your inner eyes and ears. You must open your heart.

People working in great hardship and those of us living in relative happiness are completely cut off from each other in our daily lives, but actually we are bound together by an unbreakable net. So if we don’t care about those people and we live thinking only of our own happiness, that is wrong, is it not?

As for why this is so-please remember this well-it's because in the world today, the vast majority of people are poor. So the vast majority of the people in this world are unable to live their lives in a way that is really human-this is the problem of our time, greater than any other.

In the world at large, people who are able to free themselves from this self-centered way of thinking are truly uncommon. Above all, when one stands to gain or lose, it is exceptionally difficult to step outside of oneself and make correct judgments, and thus one could say that people who are able to think Copernicus-style even about these things are exceptionally great people. Most people slip into a self-interested way of thinking, become unable to understand the facts of the matter, and end up seeing only that which betters their own circumstances.

The world is full of people who are not bad, but weak, people who bring unnecessary misfortune upon themselves and others for no reason but weakness. A heroic spirit that's not devoted to human progress may be empty and meaningless, but goodness that is lacking in the spirit of heroism is often empty as well.

It was an unpredictable and chaotic world.

When you look at things from this point, you're certain to find a surprising number of utterly worthless people living in magnificent mansions and riding in their cars with their big heads held high. And you'll find, too, among those who are most often looked down upon, that there many people to whom we should bow our own heads.

But if you think one step further, it's because human beings have a natural tendency to look at and think of things as if they were always at the center.

you must make a habit of thinking honestly, with your own experience as a foundation, and—Copper, this is very important!—if someone fakes this part, no matter what kind of great-sounding things they think or say, they are all lies in the end.

Other than a dethroned king, who would sorrow over not having a throne?" If we were not born with the ability to conduct ourselves with morality, there would be no reason for bitter tears.

At the same time, he had become keenly aware that a person's conduct was made up of actions that, once done, could not be undone, and that was a truly scary thing. Even if nobody else knew what you'd done, you yourself knew, and what's more, even if you could somehow forget completely, once you'd done a thing, there was no changing that fact. There was absolutely no way afterward to deny to yourself that you were that sort of person.

For it is only through the life you will lead, building on your many experiences and impressions, that you will be able to understand the truths in the words of these great thinkers. You will never really know these writings just by reading them, the way you would study mathematics or chemistry.

And as for you, isn’t just doing something nice for your close friends already enough to make you happy?

Over such a great distance, he thought, all the way from the earth to the moon up there, an invisible power is working.

We are all human beings, so if we can’t all live a life that is really human, something is wrong. A society that doesn’t allow that is wrong. Nobody can deny this, as long as they have an honest heart.

There are lots of people in the world who act just for appearance's sake --- in order to seem great in the eyes of others. That type of person worries first about how they are reflected in other people's eyes, and they inadvertently end up neglecting their true selves, as they really are. I hope you don't become that sort of person. And that is why you absolutely must attend to the things you feel in your own heart the things that move you deeply. That is what is most important now and always. Do not forget this, and think carefully about what it means.

you can't become a great man without having great thoughts.

When a person is living in a way that's not normal for a human being, suffering and hardships of the heart let us know that.

And with extraordinary abilities, isn’t it possible that one might just as easily accomplish extraordinarily bad things?

And now I think I want to ask all of you a question. How will you live?