“The first thing you have to know is yourself. A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an observer.”
― The Money Game
― The Money Game
“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
“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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