Thomas MacDonald

“...your opponent is not really your opponent because you and your opponent become one.”
― Morihei Ueshiba, The Art of Peace

“When you lose your desire for things that do not matter, you will be free.”
― Morihei Ueshiba

“A man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something that he thinks will make him so; he seldom attains his goal, and when he does, it is only to be disappointed; he is mostly shipwrecked in the end, and comes into harbour with mast and rigging gone. And then, it is all one whether he is happy or miserable; for his life was never anything more than a present moment always vanishing; and now it is over.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism: The Essays

“To win any battle, you must fight as if you are already dead.”
― Miyamoto Musashi