31 Quotes by Fumio Sasaki

Getting rich doesn't mean you will receive a special bonus and your days will become 25 hours long instead of 24.

A friend of mine says he grins every time he fails at something. To him, failing is discovering a method that won't work, and it brings you one step closer to succeeding. find many methods that don't work and one day, you'll find a method that does. Seen this way, failure is almost the same as success.

All these things eventually turn on us; we become slaves to our belongings, forced to spend time and energy caring for them.

But no matter how rich you become, no matter how many things you own, the joy from all your things wont be much different from how you feel now.

Our possessions are supposed to be our tools. They were used for such purposes during the Stone Age. As time went by, our world became plentiful and objects began to be used for another purpose: to enable us to affirm our own worth.

Living with only the bare essentials has not only provided superficial benefits such as the pleasure of a tidy room or the simple ease of cleaning, it has also led to a more fundamental shift. It's given me a chance to think about what it really means to be happy.

Whether we live alone or with other people, few acknowledge the presence of another roommate. This roommate is named 'Things' and the space that 'Things' occupies is typically a lot larger than the space people have for themselves.

Unhappiness isn't just the result of genetics or past trauma or career trouble. I think that some of our unhappiness is simply due to the burden of all our things.

Holding on to things from the past is the same as clinging to an image of yourself in the past. If you're the least bit interested in changing anything about yourself, I suggest you be brave and start letting things go.