Kennosuke Sasaki Quotes

Minimalism is not a goal. Reducing the number of possessions that you have is not a goal unto itself. I think minimalism is a method for individuals to find the things that are entirely important to them. It's a prologue for crafting your own unique story. ~ Fumio Sasaki

At exactly fifteen minutes past eight in the morning, on August 6, 1945, Japanese time, at the moment when the atomic bomb flashed above Hiroshima, Miss Toshiko Sasaki, a clerk in the personnel department of the East Asia Tin Works, had just sat down at her place in the plant office and was turning her head to speak to the girl at the next desk. ~ John Hersey

Don't buy it because it's cheap, don't take it because it's free. ~ Sasaki Fumio

As you go about your busy day, don't forget to look up. ~ S.E. Sasaki

I will write peace on your wings and you will fly all over the world. ~ Sadako Sasaki

Perhaps I am already tired of life - I feel as if it makes no difference when I die. The other day at the Toranomon Hospital when they told me it might be cancer, my wife and Miss Sasaki seemed to turn pale, but I was quite calm. It was surprising that I could be calm even at such a moment. I almost felt relieved, to think that my long, long life was finally coming to an end. ~ Junichiro Tanizaki

I shall write peace upon your wings,
and you shall fly around the world
so that children will no longer have
to die this way. ~ Teshima Yusuke 手島悠介

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

My feeling is that minimalists are people who know what's truly necessary for them versus what they may want for the sake of appearance, and they're not afraid to cut down on everything in the second category. ~ Fumio Sasaki

Minimalism had to be born, not out of a mere spur-of-the-moment idea or yearning for a new lifestyle, but from an earnest desire and fervent need to rethink our lives. ~ Fumio Sasaki

We think we can't become a minimalist until our lives have settled down. But it's actually the other way around; we won't be able to settle down until we're having a minimalist life. ~ Fumio Sasaki