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 Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 12:19 pm
This thread has been created in order to collect the quotes of famous masters.*
Grab your quotes and post away! ^_^
*... Among other people. Famous masters are prefered, but I'm not really going to be that picky about it. If you think a quote sounds good or you want to quote someone or something you read, go ahead and post it! I won't complain. ^_^
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Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 9:38 am
"War doesn't determine who's right, it determines who's left."
-unknown
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Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 9:35 am
Rod Nobuto Omoto "There is nothing wrong with preparing to die. In fact, it's better to prepare than not to prepare.
Why think about dying? I will die because I was born.
I will never be completely ready for death, no matter how well I prepare.
But the thing is to live until I die, live fully, and enjoy life while living. And take care of my health, both physical and mental.
Because I do not know when I am going to die, or where, or under what circumstances. I have no choice whatsoever. I will have to accept it when the time comes. . .
A school teaches how to kill, a dojo teaches how to die." Noboyuki Kamogawa "Using a bow is seeking what the heart of the bow seeks." Pat Yoshitsugu Murosako "I tell my students not to try to be too good right away, not to be overly ambitious."
"Probably on the last day of my life I'll realize what Kendo's greatest lesson has been for me." Keiko Fukuda "An instructor needs patience, which is why we have to have love." Yoshimitsu Takeyasu "The final goal is to find the right method of living- to go through life the right way." Mitsusuke Harada "In the martial arts, in Budo, we search for a truth, a spirit, a mental attitude." Eiji Yoshikawa "The sword was to be far more than a simple weapon; it had to be an answer to life's questions." Yamada Jirokichi "The way of the sword and the way of Zen are identical, for they have the same purpose- that of killing the ego." Iwakura Yoshinori "If you seek mastery of the sword, seek first sincerity of the heart, for the former is a reflection of the latter." Miyamoto Musashi "It is said that the way of the warrior is the twofold way of the pen and the sword." Shuuryu Suzuki "The true purpose of Zen is to see things as they are, and to let things go as they go." Confucius "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but rising every time we fall." Daichi "The sky disintegrates and turns to dust, the great Earth becomes peaceful, no one can see it. Abruptly, the dry tree opens its one flower. Calling to another spring, beyond history." A Japanese Proverb "Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
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Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 9:13 pm
this is a cool thread, ive got a similar theme to the front page actually, but only update it once a week... if that crying
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Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 7:13 am
Michael Noire this is a cool thread, ive got a similar theme to the front page actually, but only update it once a week... if that crying Heh, sorry hear that, Noir-san.
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Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 7:20 am
'Unicorn Jelly', a philoshophical online comic (archived) "SISU" is a Finnish word, and it describes an almost spritual trait of absolute, heroically stubborn, utterly unyielding, unflinchingly stoic, total determination. 'Sisu' has been described as "washing a car in the rain, finishing a story read to a child even though the child has long ago hopped off the lap and gone to play, raking leaves in a windstorm". Sisu is what drives a person to keep a promise no matter what the cost, to do what is honorable or true or right no matter the personal suffering, to push on even when there is no hope in all the world. To have 'Sisu' is to complete something regardless of whether the act of completion has any meaning any longer ...because the determination itself, the act of accomplishment alone, is what truly matters. It is the Finnish version of Japansese 'Bushido', the Samurai spirit, and it is considered the highest, most valuable, and most valued trait of any person. Sisu is the power to accomplish anything, and the power to be truly great. Flavius Augustus Justinianus, Emperor, 528 AD "Justice is the constant and perpetual wish to render every one his due." Denis Diderot "The world will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest." The TV series Kolchak: The Night Stalker (by the show's writer..?) For reasons I have never been able to understand, Vincenzo was always confusing my reporter's clever ingenuity with what he calls high-handed lunacy. Saito Hajime of Rurouni Kenshin/Samurai X Fan-subbed version: "You can tame a dog with food, a human with money, but no man may tame a wolf!"Professionally subtitled version: "A dog can be bought with food, a man can be bought with money, but nothing can buy a wolf!"
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Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 7:31 am
xd Some DBZ quotes a friend passed on to me... Vegeta "It's like fate is laughing at me with a big stupid grin, just like Kakarot." Vegeta "Did I miss something? When was it that the transformation to the legendary warrior of the Saiyan race was reduced to a child's play thing?" Trunks "It takes balls to come to halfway across the universe in a tin can just to be killed." Goku "If it's such a downfall to have feelings, how come I'm the only saiyan left?"
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Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 7:41 am
Reverend Belling (Graham Chapman) "You know, there are many people in the country today who, through no fault of their own, are sane. Some of them were born sane. Some of them became sane later in their lives. It is up to people like you and me who are out of our tiny little minds to try and help these people overcome their sanity. You can start in small ways with ping-pong ball eyes and a funny voice and then you can paint half of your body red and the other half green and then you can jump up and down in a bowl of treacle going "squawk, squawk, squawk..." And then you can go "Neurhhh! Neurhhh!" and then you can roll around on the floor going "pting pting pting"... " Monty Python "They began to operate what they called "The Operation." They would select a victim and then threaten to beat him up if he paid them the so-called protection money. Four months later, they started another operation which they called "The Other Operation." In this racket, they selected another victim and threatened not to beat him up if he didn't pay them. One month later, they hit upon "The Other Other Operation." In this, the victim was threatened that if he didn't pay them, they would beat him up. This, for the Piranha brothers, was the turning point." Tim the Enchanter: Monty Python and the Holy Grail "For DEATH awaits you all with nasty sharp pointy TEETH!"
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Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 7:54 am
Bumper Sticker "ANIME: drugs would be cheaper." So very, very true at times... xd
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Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 8:13 am
Mark Twain "Each person is born to one possession which outvalues all the others. . .his last breath." Cicero "The laws are silent in time of war." Latin Proverb "Dulce bellum inexpertis [Sweet is war to those who have never experienced it]"
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Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 8:24 am
heraclitus, in 500 BC The unapparent connection is more powerful than the apparent one.
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Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2005 1:04 pm
[ Message temporarily off-line ]
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Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 5:03 pm
Lyndon Johnson,1965 "I would like to see American students develop as much fanatacism about the U.S. political system as young Nazis did about their political system during the war."
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Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 2:47 pm
"The best battle is the battle not fought."
-anonymous
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Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2005 4:04 am
Young men should discipline themselves rigorously in intention and courage.This will be accomplished only if courage is fixed within one's heart. If one's sword is broken, he will strike with his hands. If his hand's are cut off, he will press the enemy down with his shoulders.If his shoulders are cut away, he will bite through ten or fifteen enemy necks with his teeth. Courage is such a thing.
You should understand that there are three conditions to the resolution of a samurai. They are the condition of the master's will, the condition of vitality, and the condition of one's death.
People with intelligence will use it to fashion things both true and false and will try to push through whatever they want with their clever reasoning. This is injury from intelligence. Nothing you do will have effect if you do not use truth.
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