8 Quotes by Ichiro Kishimi

Your unhappiness cannot be blamed on your past or your environment. And it isn’t that you lack competence. You just lack courage. One might say you are lacking in the courage to be happy.

With dance, it is the dancing itself that is the goal, and no one is concerned with arriving somewhere by doing it.

As long as you are dancing, you will get get somewhere.

What other people think when they see your face — that is the task of other people and is not something you have any control over.

Look, no matter how much you want to be Y, you cannot be reborn as him. You are not Y. It's okay for you to be you. However, I am not saying it's fine to be 'just as you are'. If you are unable to really feel happy, then it's clear that things aren't right just as they are. You've got to put one foot in front of the other, and not stop.

But is being normal, being ordinary, really such a bad thing? Is it something inferior? Or, in truth, isn't everybody normal?

People are never truly alone or separate from community, and cannot be.

All you can do in regard to your own life is choose the best path that you believe in.