But if you ask me what I remember (about 1945), I will say it was the year Franklin D. Roosevelt died and I got one of his flowers. I will tell you that yellow rose give me the courage to do the right thing even if it was hard. I will say it was the time in my life when I learned all of us is fragile as a mimosa blossom. But the miracle of all is, When push comes to shove, we can be just as tough as Hickory. It mostly hurts at first. After a while it starts to feel better.

~ Joyce Moyer Hostetter

Joyce Moyer Hostetter 1945 Hope Perseverance Strength

If the Emperor had not delivered his [15 August 1945] address urging the Japanese people to lay down their swords—if that speech had been a call instead for the Honorable Death of the Hundred Million—those people on that street in Sōshigaya probably would have done what they were told and died. And probably I would have done likewise. The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self-sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life. We were accustomed to this teaching and had never thought to question it.

~ Akira Kurosawa

Akira Kurosawa 1945 1982 Japanese Culture Self Abnegation Self Sacrifice Suicide Surrender Wwii

I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time. It was the early summer of 1945, and we walked through the streets of a Barcelona trapped beneath ashen skies as dawn poured over Rambla de Santa Monica in a wreath of liquid copper.

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Carlos Ruiz Zafón 1945 Ashen Skies Barcelona Carlos Ruiz Zafón Cemetery Of Forgotten Books Daniel Sempere Dawn Memories Rambla De Santa Monica Summer Sunny The Shadow Of The Wind

But neither Europe nor Africa can show any such desolation as America. The proudest, stubbornest, bitterest peasant of deserted Spain, the most primitive and superstitious Arab of the remotest oases, are a little more than kin and never less than kind at their worst; whereas in the United States one is almost always conscious of an instinctive lack of sympathy and understanding with even the most charming and cultured people.

~ Aleister Crowley

Aleister Crowley 1945 America

Three things happened in 1945. Daddy went missing, Annie started wetting the bed, and the Lester girl sang about Hitler in the middle of Sunday service.

~ Sarina Adeline

Sarina Adeline 1945 Family Drama Humorous Quotes

The mystic's idea of deliberately stupefying and stultifying himself is an abomination unto the Lord. This, by the way, does not conflict with the rules of Yoga. That kind of suppression is comparable to the restrictions in athletic training, or diet in sickness.

~ Aleister Crowley

Aleister Crowley 1945 Magick Thelema Yoga