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  • #1
    Yamamoto Tsunetomo
    “There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. There will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.”
    Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai

  • #2
    Yamamoto Tsunetomo
    “There is something to be learned from a rainstorm. When meeting with a sudden shower, you try not to get wet and run quickly along the road. But doing such things as passing under the eaves of houses, you still get wet. When you are resolved from the beginning, you will not be perplexed, though you will still get the same soaking. This understanding extends to everything.”
    Tsunetomo Yamamoto, The Hagakure: A code to the way of samurai

  • #3
    Yamamoto Tsunetomo
    “This is the substance of the Way of the Samurai: if by setting one's heart right every morning and evening, one is able to live as though his body were already dead, he gains freedom in the Way.
    his whole life will be without blame, and he will succeed in his calling.”
    Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  • #4
    Yamamoto Tsunetomo
    “Even if it seems certain that you will lose, retaliate. Neither wisdom nor technique has a place in this. A real man does not think of victory or defeat. He plunges recklessly towards an irrational death. By doing this, you will awaken from your dreams.”
    Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai

  • #5
    Yamamoto Tsunetomo
    “Be true to the thought of the moment and avoid distraction. Other than continuing to exert yourself, enter into nothing else, but go to the extent of living single thought by single thought.”
    Tsunetomo Yamamoto, Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai

  • #6
    Yamamoto Tsunetomo
    “It is said that what is called "the spirit of an age" is something to which one cannot return. That this spirit gradually dissipates is due to the world's coming to an end. For this reason, although one would like to change today's world back to the spirit of one hundred years or more ago, it cannot be done. Thus it is important to make the best out of every generation.”
    Tsunetomo Yamamoto, Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai

  • #7
    Yamamoto Tsunetomo
    “In the Kamigata area, they have a sort of tiered lunchbox they use for a single day when flower viewing. Upon returning, they throw them away, trampling them underfoot. The end is important in all things.”
    Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai

  • #8
    Yamamoto Tsunetomo
    “To give a person an opinion one must first judge well whether that person is of the disposition to receive it or not.”
    Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai

  • #9
    Yamamoto Tsunetomo
    “There is nothing we should be quite so grateful for as the last line of the poem that goes, 'When your own heart asks.”
    Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai

  • #10
    Yamamoto Tsunetomo
    “It is a wretched thing that the young men of today are so contriving and so proud of their material posessions. Men with contriving hearts are lacking in duty. Lacking in duty, they will have no self-respect.”
    Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
    tags: zen

  • #11
    Yamamoto Tsunetomo
    “Singlemindedness is all-powerful.”
    Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  • #12
    Yamamoto Tsunetomo
    “When one is writing a letter, he should think that the recipient will make it into a hanging scroll.”
    Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai

  • #13
    Yamamoto Tsunetomo
    “Tether even a roasted chicken.”
    Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai

  • #14
    Yamamoto Tsunetomo
    “If one is but secure at the foundation, he will not be pained by departure from minor details or affairs that are contrary to expectation. But in the end, the details of a matter are important. The right and wrong of one's way of doing things are found in trivial matters.”
    Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai

  • #15
    Yamamoto Tsunetomo
    “If a warrior is not unattached to life and death, he will be of no use whatsoever. The saying that “All abilities come from one mind” sounds as though it has to do with sentient matters, but it is in fact a matter of being unattached to life and death. With such non-attachment one can accomplish any feat.”
    Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai

  • #16
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #17
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
    Mahatma Gandhi, All Men Are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections

  • #18
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Nobody can hurt me without my permission.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #19
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Your beliefs become your thoughts,
    Your thoughts become your words,
    Your words become your actions,
    Your actions become your habits,
    Your habits become your values,
    Your values become your destiny.”
    Gandhi

  • #20
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day:

    - I shall not fear anyone on Earth.
    - I shall fear only God.
    - I shall not bear ill will toward anyone.
    - I shall not submit to injustice from anyone.
    - I shall conquer untruth by truth. And in resisting untruth, I shall put up with all suffering.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #21
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #22
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “You don't know who is important to you until you actually lose them.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #23
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #24
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable.”
    Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: love

  • #25
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “I call him religious who understands the suffering of others.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #26
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Nonviolence is a weapon of the strong.”
    Mahatma Gandhi, The Words of Gandhi: Essential Spiritual Wisdom and Timeless Thoughts on Peace, Nonviolence, and Faith

  • #27
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #28
    Elbert Hubbard
    “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
    Elbert Hubbard

  • #29
    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #30
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols



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