みんなは絵が上手い。でも、いつも別の人を目標にして自分のこと厳しく責めちゃダメだよ。誇りは持てれば十分。の英語

Everyone is good at art. They just have to stop comparing and criticizing themselves so harshly. If they're proud of what they've done, that's all that matters.

"You should write a novel or something." "Nah, I don't think so. I can't see myself coming up with anything good, anyways."

Comfort can spoil you. Once in a while, it can do you good to corner yourself (in a tight spot).

Comfort can spoil you. Once in a while, it can do you good to corner yourself.

"I think it is exhausting, but todays troubles will surely be rewarded" "Don't say such half-minded things, even if you don't believe them completely."

If you eat with someone you like, everything is delicious, if you eat with someone you don't like, everything is nasty. If you eat alone, you can't taste anything at all.

When I was in my first years of grade school, my father taught me a haiku and I longed to be a poet. On my Tanabata wish, I also wrote "Please make me a poet". Thirty years have passed and my wish has been granted. I am without doubt an invalid.

But you see, while other people may not know, in my case, if I just had the time, I'd be buried over my head in things I'd want to do. I don't have the time to not think about things I need or want.

You say that you're afraid of being disliked by other people, but you have some people that you dislike yourself, don't you? Arithmetically speaking, there are an equal number of people who you don't like that don't like you back. I'm not saying that if you end your dislike of someone, someone else will stop disliking you as well; it's just that you can't change the fact that if you dislike someone, then someone else dislikes you as well. Your life will go much smoother if you just give up and accept that truth.

It's only manners to tackle all out a game that they have gone all out in creating. Pressing the pause button is just rude!

"I just ran into a friend today who had transferred schools a while back." "Cool!" "Yeah. Then, we talked about movies, and they suggested we go watch one sometime soon. Is that OK?" "Sure! But, is this friend a boy or a girl?" "....."

"Love isn't related to money, is it?" "Is it not? Money certainly isn't everything, but love is enriched by having money." "That's probably realistic." "You're often too unrealistic."

If you care about someone, you'll become friends! If you care about each other, you'll become many times stronger! And your bravery will be unlimited! In this world are many unpleasant things, many sad things, and many that, which you can't handle by yourself. But while you have people you care about, you just can't fall! You just cannot surrender! While you have those people, about which you care, you will stand up again and again! That's why Hero is absolutely undefeatable!

If you want to do eye-grabbing work you have to put out something punchy at the outset. Say what you mean directly.

If you don't want to put on sunscreen, that's your problem. Just don't come complaining to me when you get a sunburn.

His book is oriented towards children, but here and there are words that he has never seen before. He doesn't know whether it is just him, or if they are just simply difficult words, but he finds them not worth the effort to look up in a dictionary, so he just keeps on reading.

But looking back on those days, I think the friendly competition was essential for my development.

One day my youngest daughter abruptly asked, “Mum, why do men swear so much?" I played for time. “Um—do they?"

"Well, even so my score is far above yours isn't it?" "What did you say!? If I was to go all out you'd be as nothing to me!"

Even though I put my all into this to begin with it ended up being menial work, so I think it didn't turn out great.

A strong veteran, having trained for tens of years, can fall to a weakling in a moment of laxness. That's what the martial arts world is.

While looking at the flowers I thought suddenly that humans too had a good side. It's humans who discovered the beauty of flowers and it's also humans who can appreciate them.

If I win, I get a prize. If he wins, he's got to pay me the money he owes me. Either way I can't lose.

Don't get such a big head just because you won the tournament. There's many others in the world who are just as good as you.

Um, so you don't understand? Well, I just assigned this one specifically to you because if these problems are all too simple, anything else would be insulting to you. Remember it if you have time.

In the countryside, the breaths of the grass, the trees, and the rocks have the foul smell of humans. They call to me from all directions, and they cling to me. But in the city, even the passengers of a jam-packed train are as quiet as pebbles on the riverbed, and everyone is only thinking of themselves.

Lots of people don't get into university the first time around. Why don't you pull yourself together, spend an extra year study, and try again next year?

I feel like dating a smaller guy doesn't make me feel protected, but rather like I'm going on a trip with a middle schooler. But most people don't really care about height anymore, do they?

The great actor always used to say, “The highest level of performance is achieved when art becomes artless."

Magazines let writers write what they want and decide how to lay it out afterward, but that magazine prioritizes its design, so it sets a predetermined limit on how many words are in it.