James Cozzone

“Pain is the path to strength!”
― Ryan Cahill, Of War and Ruin

“My dear friend and colleague Chris gave me the novel Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa, translated by Charles S. Terry. It’s about real life seventeenth-century samurai Miyamoto Musashi, who wrote The Book of Five Rings (which my father had in his library), and I came across a passage in the novel that I think captures the living void beautifully:”
― Shannon Lee, Be Water, My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee

“the sun will set, and it will rise again, and it will do so the next day and the next. The gods are in charge of such things, but it is by our own will that we pick ourselves up when we fall.”
― Ryan Cahill, Of Blood and Fire

“e. e. cummings quote that I love that says: “It takes courage to grow up and be who you really are.”
― Shannon Lee, Be Water, My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee