- Oubaitori
- Never compare yourself.
- Everyone blossoms in their own time in different ways.
- Don’t judge yourself by someone else’s path.
- Kaizen
- Continuously improve.
- Constantly strive to improve across all areas of your life.
- Small changes accumulate and make all the difference.
- Wabi-sabi
- Embrace imperfection.
- Nothing lasts, nothing is complete.
- Accept your own flaws and those of others.
- Find beauty in imperfection.
- Mottainai
- Don’t be wasteful.
- Everything deserves respect and gratitude.
- Recognize the value in what’s around you and don’t waste it.
- Gaman
- Have dignity during duress.
- Hard times need to be met with emotional maturity and self-control.
- We need patience, perseverance, and tolerance.
- Yuugen
- Appreciate mysterious beauty.
- Often we feel the beuaty in an object without it being stunning to look at.
- Discover subtle beauty beyond aesthetics.
- Experience something words cannot describe.
- Ikigai
- Know your reason for being.
- Define the reason you get up in the morning.
- Make it something you are good at, passionate about, and that the world needs.
- This is meaning.
- Shikita ga nai
- Accept and let go.
- Some things simply aren’t within our control.
- Accept what you cannot change, and move on.
- Kintsugi
- Repair cracks with gold.
- Imperfections are a thing of beauty.
- The journeys we all take are golden.
- Our flaws are embellishments that make us more beautiful.
- Omoiyari
- Show consideration for others.
- Life is better when we care for others.
- Be thoughtful. Build compassion.
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