Tesshu Quotes

#1. European starvation was rather more cunning and wore a series of clever masks: death came by drink, by tuberculosis, by the knife, by despair in all its manifestations.

Alan Furst

#2. Marriage is a school of learning.

Myles Munroe

#3. Thirst for victory leads to defeat; not tiring of defeat leads to victory.

Yamaoka Tesshu

#4. Unless the Security Council is restored to its pre-eminent position as the sole source of legitimacy on the use of force, we are on a dangerous path to anarchy.

Kofi Annan

#5. Nothing stops the forward march of any creative endeavor like the need to do it absolutely perfectly. And who is to judge what is 'perfect' anyway? What I have judged full of flaws so many others have called terrific. Maybe the definition of Perfection is something that actually gets done.

Neale Donald Walsch

#6. Sometimes she speaks of 'the past' as people speak who have been in prison. But you never know whether they refer to the crime or the imprisonment or the whole experience.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#7. For me, I like old-school rap music. There was a time when music was so, so rich overall, and the content of what people talked about was so deep on every level, song-for-song, pound-for-pound, and on radio, there was so much content. I gravitate more towards that type of music, to be honest.

Ciara

#8. A man with a weak Masculine is especially prone to despise and fear these qualities and may attempt to suppress the more destructive elements of the Feminine force in his partner.

David Deida

#9. As a samurai, I must strengthen my character; as a human being I must perfect my spirit

Yamaoka Tesshu

#10. The love of these people and of my fans mean more than any award or special accomplishment.

Wynonna Judd

#11. The moon does not think to be reflected, nor does the water think to reflect, in the Hirosawa Pond.

Yamaoka Tesshu

#12. In everything, there is a share of everything

Anaxagoras

#13. Zen is like soap. First you wash with it, and then you wash off the soap.

Yamaoka Tesshu

#14. If you want to obtain the secrets of such wonderful techniques, drill yourself, harden yourself, undergo severe training, abandoned body and mind; follow this course for years and you will naturally reach the profoundest levels. To know if water is hot or cold you must taste it yourself.

Yamaoka Tesshu

#15. Haiku is a way of culling things from the stream of things that rush past the senses.

Michael J. Rosen

#16. Do not think that this is all there is. More and more wonderful teachings exist ...

Yamaoka Tesshu

#17. The world is wide, full of happenings. Keep this in mind and never believe 'I'm the onlyone who knows.'

Yamaoka Tesshu