“The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.”
― Mastery
― Mastery
“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.”
― The Hagakure: A code to the way of samurai
― The Hagakure: A code to the way of samurai
“Push on when you think you can't, and next time that moment will come later”
― A Fighter's Heart: One Man's Journey Through the World of Fighting
― A Fighter's Heart: One Man's Journey Through the World of Fighting
“Fighting is a way to force something to happen.”
― A Fighter's Heart: One Man's Journey Through the World of Fighting
― A Fighter's Heart: One Man's Journey Through the World of Fighting
“There is nothing we should be quite so grateful for as the last line of the poem that goes, 'When your own heart asks.”
― Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
― Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
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