Nearly Nova: Akira Yoshizawa

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Akira Yoshizawa

This is one amazing man.. Today would be his 101's birthday :)
I would love to check out one of his origami books!

Can you believe he died on his birthday? Crazy...

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"Anything essential is invisible to the eyes." --Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince)

"I'm a collection of stories waiting to be picked up and read with interest, to be read by someone who actually cares. I've been left behind. I've been used. I've been torn. I feel out of place. I just need someplace I belong." --Me

"You will never be younger than you are at this very moment so live each moment to its fullest. Smile. Be happy. Forgive. Forget. Have fun. Live." --Me

"Sometimes ties have to be broken in order to find out which relationships are worth fighting for." --Me

"Do one thing that scares you everyday; live a little :)" --Unknown

"Smile and kill them with kindness." --Malcolm Joseph

"Be good and set the world on fire." --Ms. Jackson

"Dance as though no one is watching you, love as though you have never been hurt before, sing as though no one can hear you, live as though heaven is on earth." --Souza

"If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn a mighty stranger." --Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

"It's about telling someone how you feel regardless of what you get back, and not waiting to find out if they want you or not." --Elly Jackson

"You have to know what you stand for, not just what you stand against." --Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

"The best things in life aren't things." --Art Buchwald

"The guy who was my best friend doesn't exist any longer, and I don't want to think about the person who has taken his place. I go over everything that happened last year, trying to figure out what I could have done different, what I would do different if I had the chance, but I don't know. Mostly I wonder "what if?" I am too mixed up to really care. And to think, I used to be sure of things." --S.E. Hinton, That Was Then, This Is Now