If you ask a mother to answer the question, "What kind of man should I date?" in 10 words or less, she might start by saying something like this.
'Find a man who can break up well.'
Yeah, I remember you being surprised when I said something like that before.
No one would ask me to do that, but I want to say something like that when I officiate a wedding.
'Even if you get divorced, continue your marriage in a way that you remain good people to each other.'

When you meet someone, look closely.
I'm just saying, is he really the kind of person who would break up on good terms?
Someone who will make the breakup polite and regrettable, who will be remembered as a good person forever, and who will make me think that having known him was definitely one of the luckiest things in my life.
Even if the two of you are involved in some kind of incident and have no choice but to break up, or break up because you are tired of each other, or break up because you have a change of heart, I wonder if he is the kind of person who will really break up well in such a situation.
―From “Meet a Man Who Breaks Up Well”

Having a crush on someone and liking them is different from loving them.
People often say that they love their parents or siblings, but they don't like them.
It's a common occurrence.
Because while both likeability and people are important, they are not the same thing.

Life is like a flowing river, you can wander around for a while, but you can't stay there forever.
When we let go of things that flow, that must flow, that cannot help but flow and that want to flow, whoever it is, even if it is me, then life finally takes on the color of freedom.
Yeah, it's a difficult task.
More than the mountain climbing that my mom was afraid of.
To be honest, my mom is like that too.
I'm still learning.
The difficult task of sharing or losing a friend.
―From “I will support you no matter what kind of life you live”

You cannot give to others what you do not have within yourself.
If you have hate in you, you will hate others, and if you have love in you, you will love others.
If you have a wound in you, you will hurt others, and if you have a sarcasm in you, you will sarcastically criticize others.
If you love someone, he or she is likely to be like you in some way.
Because you have come to know and love what is within you.
If there is someone you hate or dislike, he or she is likely to be similar to you in some way.
Because you won't be able to see in him what isn't in you.
But whether you give love or hate to others, or whatever kind of heart you give to them, the result is actually yours.
When you realize this, you become afraid of every word and every look.
I'm really scared.
―From “The only person who can hurt you is yourself”

You probably know the story of how my mother, during one of the most difficult moments of her life, went out of her way to find people who desperately needed her help and overcame it.
Now, Mom is no longer afraid of the trials that will come her way because she has experienced the secret.
The liberation and salvation that service and love give.
When difficulties come to your life, when sorrows beyond your power overwhelm you, go to someone who needs a bowl of rice, a stream of water, or a drop of tear.
Mom can guarantee it.
By giving to them you gain.
All the comfort and new hope you need.
You must always choose love.
You have to choose happiness between pleasure and happiness.
Between greed and friendship, find friendship; between vanity and sincerity, find sincerity.
And if you want to rebel, you have to do it passionately.
―From “You Must Choose Between Pleasure and Happiness”

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