1506 quotes by japanese authors for you to enjoy

I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve. Isoroku Yamamoto

Fear Resolve Sleeping Giant Terrible Him Done Awaken Fill

Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home. Matsuo Basho

Day Home Journey Every Day Every Itself

Everyone has a spirit that can be refined, a body that can be trained in some manner, a suitable path to follow. You are here to realize your inner divinity and manifest your innate enlightenment. Morihei Ueshiba

You Path Suitable Everyone Follow Some Spirit Divinity Refined Trained Manifest Realize Manner Body Your Innate Inner Here Enlightenment

The purpose of training is to tighten up the slack, toughen the body, and polish the spirit. Morihei Ueshiba

Training Spirit Purpose Toughen Polish Tighten Up Body Slack

Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment. Morihei Ueshiba

Wisdom Great Thoughts Yourself Light Sky Mind Power Ocean Vast Highest Clear Empty Always Heat Body Your Your Body Fill Filled Keep Bright Peak Enlightenment

The objective of cleaning is not just to clean, but to feel happiness living within that environment. Marie Kondo

Happiness Cleaning Living Objective Clean Environment Feel Within Just

The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers. Matsuo Basho

Out Temple Sound Still Coming Hear Stops Bell Flowers

Let your dreams outgrow the shoes of your expectations. Ryunosuke Satoro

Dreams Shoes Outgrow Expectations Your Your Dreams

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought. Matsuo Basho

Wise Brainy Follow Seek Footsteps Sought

Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks. Also learn from holy books and wise people. Everything - even mountains, rivers, plants and trees - should be your teacher. Morihei Ueshiba

Teacher Wise People Stream Water Plants Mountains Trees Everything Valley Books Rivers Wise People Study Between Freely Also Learn How Smoothly Rocks Holy Should Your Even Flows

There are no greater treasures than the highest human qualities such as compassion, courage and hope. Not even tragic accident or disaster can destroy such treasures of the heart. Daisaku Ikeda

Hope Heart Courage Compassion Accident Destroy Highest Disaster Qualities Greater Tragic Than Human Human Qualities Even Treasures

A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it. Dogen

Love Gardening Weed Flower Though Falls Even Grows

To truly cherish the things that are important to you, you must first discard those that have outlived their purpose. And if you no longer need them, then that is neither wasteful nor shameful. Can you truthfully say that you treasure something buried so deeply in a cupboard or drawer that you have forgotten its existence? Marie Kondo

You First Important Say Those Drawer Neither Must Something Outlived Purpose Shameful Longer Discard Cherish Nor Truly Existence Cupboard Truthfully Forgotten Buried Them Then Deeply Wasteful Things Treasure Need

Study strategy over the years and achieve the spirit of the warrior. Today is victory over yourself of yesterday; tomorrow is your victory over lesser men. Miyamoto Musashi

Today Learning Yourself Achieve Victory Tomorrow Men Yesterday Warrior Strategy Spirit Study Over Years Your Lesser

It is necessary to be concerned about the importance of educating a really beautiful human spirit. Shinichi Suzuki

Beautiful Spirit About Importance Concerned Educating Human Really Human Spirit Necessary

Genuine happiness can only be achieved when we transform our way of life from the unthinking pursuit of pleasure to one committed to enriching our inner lives, when we focus on 'being more' rather than simply having more. Daisaku Ikeda

When one takes action for others, one's own suffering is transformed into the energy that can keep one moving forward; a light of hope illuminating a new tomorrow for oneself and others is kindled. Daisaku Ikeda

Hope Moving Forward Suffering Light Tomorrow Own Energy Action Others Oneself Takes New Transformed Moving Forward Keep Illuminating

I think I will be able to, in the end, rise above the clouds and climb the stairs to Heaven, and I will look down on my beautiful life. Yayoi Kusama

Life Beautiful Clouds Will Rise Above Down Think Able Rise Above Beautiful Life Look Climb End Heaven In The End Stairs

To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace. Morihei Ueshiba

Art Peace Yourself Control Without Opponent Aggression Injure Injury

There are no contests in the Art of Peace. A true warrior is invincible because he or she contests with nothing. Defeat means to defeat the mind of contention that we harbor within. Morihei Ueshiba

Art Peace Mind Nothing Warrior Defeat He He Or She True Invincible She Because Within Contention Contests Means Harbor

Do nothing which is of no use. Miyamoto Musashi

Nothing Which Use

As soon as you concern yourself with the 'good' and 'bad' of your fellows, you create an opening in your heart for maliciousness to enter. Testing, competing with, and criticizing others weaken and defeat you. Morihei Ueshiba

Good You Heart Yourself Defeat Others Enter Weaken Bad Criticizing Soon Opening Concern Fellows Testing Create Good And Bad Your Competing

With just one polka dot, nothing can be achieved. In the universe, there is the sun, the moon, the earth, and hundreds of millions of stars. All of us live in the unfathomable mystery and infinitude of the universe. Pursuing 'philosophy of the universe' through art under such circumstances has led me to what I call 'stereotypical repetition.' Yayoi Kusama

Art Me Moon Nothing Live Stars Universe Earth Philosophy Hundreds Sun Circumstances Mystery Through Pursuing Stereotypical Call Led Repetition Just Achieved Unfathomable Just One Dot Us Millions

In a mad world, only the mad are sane. Akira Kurosawa

World Mad Only Sane

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