“When you lose your temper, you lose yourself—on the mat as well as in life.”
― quote from Zen in the Martial Arts
“When one eye is fixed upon your destination, there is only one eye left with which to find the Way.”
― quote from Zen in the Martial Arts
“When an untoward event occurs in your life, react to it without haste or passion.”
― quote from Zen in the Martial Arts
“The gentle and yielding is the disciple of life.”
― quote from Zen in the Martial Arts
“For example, if you are fearful your mind will freeze, motion will be stopped and you will be defeated. If your mind is fixed on victory or defeating your opponent, you will be unable to function automatically.”
― quote from Zen in the Martial Arts
“To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the highest skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the highest skill.”
― quote from Zen in the Martial Arts
“The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life.”
― quote from Zen in the Martial Arts
“Only through practice and more practice, until you can do something without conscious effort.”
― quote from Zen in the Martial Arts
“I can defeat you physically with or without a reason. But I can only defeat your mind with a reason. —JIM LAU”
― quote from Zen in the Martial Arts
“A man who has attained mastery of an art reveals it in his every action.”
― quote from Zen in the Martial Arts
“Those who are patient in the trivial things in life and control themselves will one day have the same mastery in great and important things.”
― quote from Zen in the Martial Arts
“Always remember: in life as well as on the mat an unfocused or ‘loose’ mind wastes energy.”
― quote from Zen in the Martial Arts
“What stands in the way of effortless effort is caring, or a conscious attempt to do well.”
― quote from Zen in the Martial Arts
“The principle of avoiding conflict and never opposing an aggressor’s strength head-on is the essence of aikido. We apply the same principle to problems that arise in life. The skilled aikidoist is as elusive as the truth of Zen; he makes himself into a koan—a puzzle which slips away the more one tries to solve it. He is like water in that he falls through the fingers of those who try to clutch him. Water does not hesitate before it yields, for the moment the fingers begin to close it moves away, not of its own strength, but by using the pressure applied to it. It is for this reason, perhaps, that one of the symbols for aikido is water.”
― quote from Zen in the Martial Arts
“For the uncontrolled there is no wisdom, nor for the uncontrolled is there the power of concentration; and for him without concentration there is no peace. And for the unpeaceful, how can there be happiness? —BHAGAVAD GITA”
― quote from Zen in the Martial Arts
“The mind is like a fertile garden,” Bruce said. “It will grow anything you wish to plant—beautiful flowers or weeds. And so it is with successful, healthy thoughts or with negative ones that will, like weeds, strangle and crowd the others. Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are the weeds that strangle confidence.”
― quote from Zen in the Martial Arts
“We are like blades of grass or trees of the forest, creations of the universe, of the spirit of the universe, and the spirit of the universe has neither life nor death. Vanity is the only obstacle to life.”
― quote from Zen in the Martial Arts
“Only after several years of training did I come to realize that the deepest purpose of the martial arts is to serve as a vehicle for personal spiritual development.”
― quote from Zen in the Martial Arts
“And for the unpeaceful, how can there be happiness?”
― quote from Zen in the Martial Arts
“Lest soviel ihr könnt! Lest Straßenschilder und Speisekarten, lest die Anschläge im Bürgermeisteramt, lest von mir aus Schundliteratur - aber lest! Lest! Sonst seid ihr verloren!”
― Walter Moers, quote from Rumo: And His Miraculous Adventures
“We all must wake up from dreams”
― E.J. Mellow, quote from The Divide
“with her, still. I am hurt, the hurt having multiplied when I realised that Kushi is Gopi’s child. But I also feel sorry for Puja, for everything she went through all alone, without the bolstering support of us, her family. Now I understand why Puja asked the landlord if she could marry Gopi. It was a desperate act on the part of a floundering girl. Is Kushi Puja’s way of giving me something of Gopi because she stole him from me? I love Kushi like nothing and no one else. It was love at first sight as it was with Puja, Ma, but with none of the jealousy. How could I resent this tiny new life, this helpless minuscule being who had come into my world on the rain ravaged day when I bid adieu to you and Da, a blessing at a time when I had never felt more alone? Whatever her reasons, I am grateful to Puja for the”
― Renita D'Silva, quote from A Sister's Promise
“hope was nothing but a vindictive bastard that took up residence inside and gave a false promise of something outside of your control.”
― Aleatha Romig, quote from Betrayal
“I think you are seriously overestimating my dancing abilities. My kind of dancing usually ends up on the Internet, where people watch it so they can stop feeling sorry about their own lives. You know how people say they have two left feet? It's like I have no feet and my stumps are attached to wheels shaped like triangles.”
― T.J. Klune, quote from Who We Are
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