Quotes by Ruth Ozeki

Ruth Ozeki

…I am a time being. Do you know what a time being is? Well, if you give me a moment, I will tell you. A time being is someone who lives in time, and that means you, and me, and every one of us who is, or was, or ever will be.

Giving

Life

Mean

A person is born form the deep conditions of the world. A person pokes up from the world and roll along like a wave. Until it’s time to sink down again. Up, down. Person, wave.

Form

Wave

World

Am I crazy?” she asked. “I feel like I am sometimes.” “Maybe,” he said, rubbing her forehead. “But don’t worry about it. You need to be a little bit crazy. Crazy is the price you pay for having an imagination. It’s your superpower. Tapping into the dream. It’s a good thing not a bad thing.

Crazy

Dream

Imagination

An unfinished book. left unattended, turns feral, and she would need all her focus, will and ruthless determination to tame it again.

Book

Determination

Focus

And if you decide not to read anymore, hey, no problem, because you’re not the one I was waiting for anyway. But if you decide to read on, then guess what? You’re my kind of time being and together we’ll make magic!

Magic

Together

Waiting

Both life and death manifest in every moment of existence. Our human body appears and disappears moment by moment, without cease, and this ceaseless arising and passing away is what we experience as time and being. They are not separate. They are one thing, and in even a fraction of a second, we have the opportunity to choose, and to turn the course of our action either toward the attainment of truth or away from it. Each instant is utterly critical to the whole world.

Life And Death

Opportunity

Passing Away

But in the time it takes to say now, now is already over. It’s already then.

Over It

By the time we, consumers, are aware of processes like genetic engineering, they’re already being done. It’s sort of like the war in Iraq: By the time we know about it, it’s almost a fait accompli. And that’s certainly true with science.

Engineering

Iraq

War

Casting your voice out into the future is very beautiful to me.

Beautiful

Casting

Voice

Do all kids have to worry about their parents’ mental health? The way society is set up, parents are supposed to be the grown-up ones and look after the kids, but a lot of times it’s the other way around.

Kids

Parent

Worry

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Abandon

Ancient

Answers

Beautiful

Believe

Book

Bullying

Casting

Character

Cherry Blossom

Conjuring

Consolation

Cost

Crazy

Determination

Doe

Drama

Dream

Elements

Engineering

Eye

Failing

Fallen

Fallen Leaves

Fiction

Flow

Focus

Form

Generosity

Giving

Good Night

Handwriting

Hard

Home

Imagination

Important

Infinite

Information

Inspiration

Inspiring

Iraq

Irritation

Juxtaposition

Kids

Knows

Language

Length

Life

Life And Death

Life Is

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Quotes by Ruth Ozeki

Ruth Ozeki

…I am a time being. Do you know what a time being is? Well, if you give me a moment, I will tell you. A time being is someone who lives in time, and that means you, and me, and every one of us who is, or was, or ever will be.

A person is born form the deep conditions of the world. A person pokes up from the world and roll along like a wave. Until it’s time to sink down again. Up, down. Person, wave.

An unfinished book. left unattended, turns feral, and she would need all her focus, will and ruthless determination to tame it again.

And if you decide not to read anymore, hey, no problem, because you’re not the one I was waiting for anyway. But if you decide to read on, then guess what? You’re my kind of time being and together we’ll make magic!

But in the time it takes to say now, now is already over. It’s already then.

By the time we, consumers, are aware of processes like genetic engineering, they’re already being done. It’s sort of like the war in Iraq: By the time we know about it, it’s almost a fait accompli. And that’s certainly true with science.

Casting your voice out into the future is very beautiful to me.

Do all kids have to worry about their parents’ mental health? The way society is set up, parents are supposed to be the grown-up ones and look after the kids, but a lot of times it’s the other way around.

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