Miyamoto Musashi · 96 pages
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“there is nothing outside of yourself that can ever enable you to get better, stronger, richer, quicker, or smarter. Everything is within. Everything exists. Seek nothing outside of yourself.”
― Miyamoto Musashi, quote from A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
“Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world”
― Miyamoto Musashi, quote from A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
“You must understand that there is more than one path to the top of the mountain”
― Miyamoto Musashi, quote from A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
“Do nothing that is of no use”
― Miyamoto Musashi, quote from A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
“The ultimate aim of martial arts is not having to use them”
― Miyamoto Musashi, quote from A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
“If you wish to control others you must first control yourself”
― Miyamoto Musashi, quote from A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
“from one thing, know ten thousand things”
― Miyamoto Musashi, quote from A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
“You can only fight the way you practice”
― Miyamoto Musashi, quote from A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
“Perceive that which cannot be seen with the eye.”
― Miyamoto Musashi, quote from A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
“It is difficult to understand the universe if you only study one planet”
― Miyamoto Musashi, quote from A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
“Today is victory over yourself of yesterday; tomorrow is your victory over lesser men.”
― Miyamoto Musashi, quote from A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
“Get beyond love and grief: exist for the good of Man.”
― Miyamoto Musashi, quote from A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
“Do not regret what you have done”
― Miyamoto Musashi, quote from A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
“The primary thing when you take a sword in your hands is your intention to cut the enemy, whatever the means. Whenever you parry, hit, spring, strike or touch the enemy's cutting sword, you must cut the enemy in the same movement. It is essential to attain this. If you think only of hitting, springing, striking or touching the enemy, you will not be able actually to cut him.”
― Miyamoto Musashi, quote from A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
“All man are the same except for their belief in their own selves, regardless of what others may think of them”
― Miyamoto Musashi, quote from A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
“If you do not control the enemy, the enemy will control you”
― Miyamoto Musashi, quote from A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
“Do not sleep under a roof. Carry no money or food. Go alone to places frightening to the common brand of men. Become a criminal of purpose. Be put in jail, and extricate yourself by your own wisdom.”
― Miyamoto Musashi, quote from A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
“You should not have any special fondness for a particular weapon, or anything else, for that matter. Too much is the same as not enough. Without imitating anyone else, you should have as much weaponry as suits you.”
― Miyamoto Musashi, quote from A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
“The only reason a warrior is alive is to fight, and the only reason a warrior fights is to win”
― Miyamoto Musashi, quote from A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
“To know ten thousand things, know one well”
― Miyamoto Musashi, quote from A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
“Respect Buddha and the gods without counting on their help”
― Miyamoto Musashi, quote from A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
“Whatever the Way, the master of strategy does not appear fast….Of course, slowness is bad. Really skillful people never get out of time, and are always deliberate, and never appear busy.”
― Miyamoto Musashi, quote from A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
“The important thing in strategy is to suppress the enemy's useful actions but allow his useless actions”
― Miyamoto Musashi, quote from A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
“You may abandon your own body but you must preserve your honour.”
― Miyamoto Musashi, quote from A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
“The true science of martial arts means practicing them in such a way that they will be useful at any time, and to teach them in such a way that they will be useful in all things.”
― Miyamoto Musashi, quote from A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
“To become the enemy, see yourself as the enemy of the enemy”
― Miyamoto Musashi, quote from A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
“Know your enemy, know his sword.”
― Miyamoto Musashi, quote from A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
“When you decide to attack, keep calm and dash in quickly, forestalling the enemy...attack with a feeling of constantly crushing the enemy, from first to last.”
― Miyamoto Musashi, quote from A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
“No man is invincible, and therefore no man can fully understand that which would make him invincible”
― Miyamoto Musashi, quote from A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
“It is difficult to realize the true Way just through sword-fencing. Know the smallest things and the biggest things, the shallowest things and the deepest things.”
― Miyamoto Musashi, quote from A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
Miyamoto Musashi
Born place: Mimasaka Province, Japan
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“What bedrooms did you give to our guests?”
“The ones all the way . . . way . . . way on the other side of the manse.”
He laughed at that, hugging her tightly for giving him that ability to indulge in humor once more.
“Then I’d say the bedroom with the old armoire you like should suffice.”
“Yes, master,” she teased, flicking her hand and sending them there. “Oops, one sec.” She winked at him and snapped her fingers, the bottle of lotion suddenly in her hand.
“Show-off. You know, you are going to have to tell me how you do that.”
“Well, first you pump this little thing on top, then the lotion—”
Legna yelped when he slapped his hand hard on her bottom, the blanket doing little to shield her from the sting of it.
“Gideon! Do not ever do that again!” she scolded.
“Not even if you beg me to?” he countered lecherously.
Legna laughed, unable to help herself.
“I hate you!”
“No, you do not,” he insisted. “How many times do I have to tell you that?”
― Jacquelyn Frank, quote from Gideon
“My eyes hurt," she said plaintively, as he surveyed the stacks of books they hadn't read yet.
"Then by all means, we will save your eyes for a bit," Peri said, with a chuckle that rumbled inside his chest. He put his head down along his folded forelegs and looked up at her with an amused expression.
"What are you thinking about?" he asked.
"That I've never known anyone it was easier to be- friends with," she said, hesitating a moment over the "friend" part. Because it felt as if their relationship was unfolding into something a great deal warmer than mere friendship.
"It's odd, isn't it?" he responded. "Except for my brother, I've never been as comfortable around any dragon as I am around you. I don't quite know how to fathom it."
"Then let's not," she said instantly, not wanting to spoil anything. "All right?"
He laughed. "One can certainly analyze things until they are no longer enjoyable. I bow to your wisdom. I am just happy to enjoy your company."
She felt warm and tingly in a pleasant sort of way as he looked down at her with those glowing dark-emerald eyes. Feeling greatly daring, she reached out and scratched the soft skin under his chin.
He sighed. "Oh, glory. That feels lovely. Don't stop doing that for the next thirty years or so. Take more time if you need it."
She laughed, but kept scratching.
"I wish there was something I could do for you that felt as good," he said, in a voice rich with content.
"You already are," she said. "You're very comfortable to sit on."
He laughed again, this time with a note of self-mockery. "I shall be sure to add that to my list of virtues. 'Makes a comfortable chair.' I am sure the Great Dragon at the gates of Paradise will find that ample reason to let me in straightaway. And the rest of my clan will surely inscribe it on my memorial wall."
She blinked. "Dragons believe in Paradise?" she said, surprised.
"Of course they do, silly goose," Peri replied, with another affectionate brush on his nose on her shoulder.”
― Mercedes Lackey, quote from One Good Knight
“[H]e was one of those people who got to the top of an organisation through luck, connections, the indulgence of superiors and that sort of carelessness towards others that the easily impressed termed ruthlessness and those of a less gullible nature called sociopathy. But sometimes, just through his sheer unthinking brusqueness and inability to think through the consequences of a remark, he said what everybody else was only thinking. A comic poet working in obscene doggerel.”
― Iain M. Banks, quote from The Algebraist
“If you do everything, you’ll win,”
― Robert A. Caro, quote from Master of the Senate
“Labienus first tried, under cover of a line of mantlets, to make a causeway across the marsh on a foundation of fascines and other material. Finding this too difficult, he silently quitted his camp some time after midnight and retraced his steps to Metlosedum, a town of the Senones situated like Lutetia on an island in the river. He seized some fifty boats, quickly lashed them together to form a bridge, and sent troops across to the island.”
― Gaius Julius Caesar, quote from The Conquest of Gaul
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