Yamada Quotes

#1. Yamada might be a good general - Mat did not know - but he had never stood a chance against Riselle and that marvelous bosom.

Robert Jordan

#2. Someone who wants to attain enlightenment must be brave. He must rush into the crowd of enemies with a dagger. In the practice of Zen, enemies are our delusive thoughts and passions.

Yamada Koun

#3. Be good to yourself. If you don't take care of your body, where will you live?

Kobi Yamada

#4. In the same way your life is the continuity of standing up, sitting down, laughing, sleeping, waking up, drinking, eating, and, of course, being born and dying. That is the continuity of the whole universe.

Yamada Koun

#5. If you want to make the days of your life really matter, then you must love something.

Kobi Yamada

#6. The entrance into Zen is the grasping of one's essential nature. It is absolutely impossible, however, to come to a clear understanding of our essential nature by any intellectual or philosophical method. It is accomplished only by the experience of self-realization through zazen.

Yamada Koun

#7. We must remember that one of the most insidious ways of keeping women and minorities powerless is to let them only talk about harmless and inconsequential subjects ...

Mitsuye Yamada

#8. We need to raise our voices a little more, even as they say to us, 'This is so uncharacteristic of you.' Invisibility is not a natural state for anyone.

Mitsuye Yamada

#9. Believe there is a light at the end of the tunnel. Believe that you may be that light for someone else.

Kobi Yamada

#10. Intense desire not only creates its own possibilities, but its own talents. Don't be afraid to do something just because it's impossible.

Kobi Yamada

#11. Follow your dreams. They know the way.

Kobi Yamada

#12. In fact, knowing she'd been through hardship filled me with sweet tenderness.

Taichi Yamada

#13. Some experiences simply do not translate. you have to go to know.

Kobi Yamada

#14. He looks kind, but he's really a huge sex fiend. He's perverted and spoiled and always jealous. And he hasn't called me for two weeks. But he's cool, isn't he? My guy. I'm the only one that knows...that the coolest part of him is his naked back.

Yugi Yamada

#15. Sometimes you just have to take the leap and build your wings on the way down.

Kobi Yamada

#16. Every moment is the manifestation of the whole. Life itself is, therefore, nothing but the continuous moment of the whole, and everybody is living the continuous moment of the whole.

Yamada Koun

#17. The practice of Zen is forgetting the self in the act of uniting with something.

Yamada Koun

#18. The purpose of Zen is the perfection of character.

Yamada Koun

#19. In a future time when most human thought has been accelerated by artificial intelligence and external memory can be shared on a universal matrix... GITS 2

Masaki Yamada

#20. Everything is a once in a lifetime experience.

Kobi Yamada

#21. Every life comes with a story ... and a possibility for a great adventure.

Kobi Yamada

#22. She didn't need friends; she needed to be a bigger bitch.

Chubby Chaser, 11/21/14. Available for preorder on Amazon.

Kahoko Yamada

#23. Never Doubt
There comes a moment when you begin to realize that virtually anything is possible - that nothing is too good to be true.

Kobi Yamada

#24. Every now and then, bite off more than you can chew.

Kobi Yamada

#25. If the majority culture know so little about us, it must be our problem, they seem to be telling us; the burden of teaching is on us.

Mitsuye Yamada

#26. The future is sending back good wishes and waiting with open arms.

Kobi Yamada

#27. Love is blind; people aren't.

Chubby Chaser, 11/21/14

Kahoko Yamada

#28. Embrace your uniqueness. Time is much too short to be living someone else's life.

Kobi Yamada

#29. Be infinitely curious and creative for the world is infinitely vast and beautiful.

Kota Yamada

#30. the adaptive nature of our brain inevitably follows that we, and only we can decide which part of our mind to cultivate, and which part to leave withering and decaying.

Yamada Takumi

#31. Believe that there's light at the end of the tunnel. Believe that you might be that light for someone else.

Kobi Yamada

#32. Someday all you will have to light your way will be a single ray of hope and that will be enough.

Kobi Yamada