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The Woman in the White Kimono QUOTES

The Woman in the White Kimono QUOTES

1 " To just know a truth is not enough. First, you must understand. And it requires bravery from two people.
One to speak it. And one to listen. "

― Ana Johns , The Woman in the White Kimono

2 " A life with love is happy. A life for love is foolish. A life of if only is unbearable. In my seventy-eight years, I have had all three. Grandmother would often say, “So it is with sorrow. So it is with happiness. It will pass.” But even in my old age, when I close my eyes, I can still see the distant flicker of a thousand tiny lights. "

― Ana Johns , The Woman in the White Kimono

3 " A life with love is happy. A life for love is foolish. A life of if only is unbearable. "

― Ana Johns , The Woman in the White Kimono

4 " Worry gives a small thing big shadows. "

― Ana Johns , The Woman in the White Kimono

5 " To understand your direction, you must know both your roots and your reach. "

― Ana Johns , The Woman in the White Kimono

6 " Time does not discriminate. It does not care if we are happy or sad. It does not slow or hurry. It’s a linear creature, traveling in one direction, constant even through pain. "

― Ana Johns , The Woman in the White Kimono

7 " Repaired objects hold even more beauty as the restoration becomes part of the object’s history. "

― Ana Johns , The Woman in the White Kimono

8 " What is truth but a story we tell ourselves? "

― Ana Johns , The Woman in the White Kimono

9 " Sorrow and happiness do not pass. They burrow in deep and become our bones. We stand on their uneven legs, trying to keep balance when there is none.
There is only love. Only truth. "

― Ana Johns , The Woman in the White Kimono

10 " Anger rips free from a tongue too often silenced. "

― Ana Johns , The Woman in the White Kimono

11 " Time is a stubborn creature that delights in goading you. When happy, it sprouts wings and flies. When waiting, it drags through thick mud with heavy feet. "

― Ana Johns , The Woman in the White Kimono

12 " . . . my love is as your shadow, unshakable and always behind you. "

― Ana Johns , The Woman in the White Kimono

13 " Love and a cough cannot be hidden for it takes everything not to run or shout. "

― Ana Johns , The Woman in the White Kimono

14 " The Red String of Fate is an old East-Asian belief. It is said the heavens tie a red cord around the little fingers of those ordained to be together. It is an invisible thread that connects those who are destined to meet, regardless of time, place or circumstance. The thread may stretch or tangle, but it will never break. "

― Ana Johns , The Woman in the White Kimono

15 " Truth has a proper time, too. If it comes too early or too late, it is both a lie. "

― Ana Johns , The Woman in the White Kimono

16 " We often wish to destroy what we’re scared of, but by doing so, we destroy ourselves. "

― Ana Johns , The Woman in the White Kimono

17 " To know your direction you must know both your roots and your reach "

― Ana Johns , The Woman in the White Kimono

18 " To pick the correct one is fate. To pick the wrong one is also fate. "

― Ana Johns , The Woman in the White Kimono

19 " Grief releases in spurts.
This is heaven's design. If it didn't offer moments of repose, we would die beside those we mourn. Like a switch, it flips agony on and off. On, we are strangled by death until we are near it ourselves. It clicks off before we suffocate. This is the void, the vacuum of nothing. "

― Ana Johns , The Woman in the White Kimono

20 " Heaven is not some place for your future spirit to rest. It is finding happiness in your current state. And likewise, there are no locks on the gates of hell; it is only suffering and only for a time. "

― Ana Johns , The Woman in the White Kimono