Junzo Yoshimura quotes

“If a house has a center of gravity, first of all there is stability. From stability there is serenity. I think this leads to a pleasant feeling”
-- Junzo Yoshimura

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“The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule.”

Source : "The Parenting Trap" by A. A. Gill, www.vanityfair.com. November 2, 2012.

“A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.”

Source : A. A. Milne (2013). “The Red House Mystery and Other Novels”, p.1247, eBookIt.com

“Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.”

“I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.”

“The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.”

“I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.”

“Try lighting your house by prayer instead of electricity and see which one works.”

“The work of art is brought into the world without there being a need for it. The house satisfies a requirement. The work of art is responsible to none; the house is responsible to everyone. The work of art wants to draw people out of their state of comfort.”

“It is always in the midst, in the epicenter, of your troubles that you find serenity.”

“This severe, ascetic music, calm and horizontal as the line of the ocean, monotonous by virtue of its serenity, anti-sensuous, and yet so intense in its contemplativeness that it verges sometimes on ecstasy.”