Curtis Oneal

“Above all, Reigisaho is an expression of mutual respect in person-to-person encounters, a respect for each other’s personalities, a respect which results from the martial artist’s confrontations with life-or-death situations. The culmination of the martial artist’s experience is the expression of love for all humanity. This expression of love for all of humanity is Reigisaho. The belief that each person is important functions as a filter to purify and sublimate the martial artist’s personality and dignity.”
― Andrea Billingiere, A Beginner's Guide to Aikido

“Uninfluenced by others, he never knew he influenced them; he had no idea they liked him.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed

“Because we so profoundly personalize success, we miss opportunities to lift others onto the top rung. We make rules that frustrate achievement. We prematurely write off people as failures. We are too much in awe of those who succeed and far too dismissive of those who fail. And, most of all, we become much too passive. We overlook just how large a role we all play—and by “we” I mean society—in determining who makes it and who doesn’t. If we chose to, we could acknowledge that cutoff dates matter.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success

“Never name the well from which you will not drink.”
― Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon