Quotes from Dr. Brian Ogawa

there is no obscuring of responsibility such as "I try to be honest." We are honest or we are not honest.

A Chinese proverb goes: "We do not live for a hundred years but worry enough for a thousand" (Char, 1970, p. 15).

Boredom exists, as Frankl (1955) argued, so that "we will escape inactivity and do justice to the meaning of our life" (p. 87).

We can only find "true peace of mind" by accepting that life is alternately bitter and sweet (Morita, 1928/1998, p. 87).

According to the classic Zen saying, "Do everything as you do anything.

Educators by the same token must cast their teaching in behavior rather than feelings toward their students.

As "voyeurs of billionaires" (Goolsbee, 2007) material excess has become our metronome of modern living.

the mind of the common person is aroused by gain, while that of a sage awakens to justice