Mitsuyo Maeda Quotes & Sayings

We rarely grow when we're happy, we grow when we hurt. — Maggie Q

I wrote all four of my books at Starbucks. — Rainbow Rowell

Bold. Ruthless. Energy. Action. Tenacity. Hunger. That was what B-R-E-A-T-H was. — Karen Marie Moning

When you start working, everybody is in your studio- the past, your friends, enemies, the art world, and above all, your own ideas- all are there. But as you continue painting, they start leaving, one by one, and you are left completely alone. Then, if you are lucky, even you leave. — John Cage

As a freshman in college, I was having a lot of trouble adjusting. I took a meditation class to handle anxiety. It really helped. Then as a grad student at Harvard, I was awarded a pre-doctoral traveling fellowship to India, where my focus was on the ancient systems of psychology and meditation practices of Asia. — Daniel Goleman

It is only work that is done as freewill offering to humanity and to nature that does not bring with it any binding attachment. — Swami Vivekananda

Ren? I begged. Please don't leave me.
You are in my heart. Always. His warm voice whispered softly and then faded away. — Colleen Houck

When publicly censured our first instinct is to make everybody a codefendant. — Ambrose Bierce

I didn't feel like I fit in anywhere, except with Alex. He was home; he was everything that was right with my world. — Keary Taylor

Ere yet we yearn for what is out of our reach, we are still in the cradle. When wearied out with our yearnings, desire again falls asleep; we are on the death-bed. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Perhaps to the soldier the civilian is the man who employs him to kill, who includes the guilt of murder in the pay-envelope and escapes responsibility. — Graham Greene

If you break into my house, I will shoot you. My wife will shoot you and then spend thirty minutes telling you why she shot you. — Jeff Foxworthy

But an intelligent man like you would know that to live in an unrealistic hope is a very foolish way to spend a life. - Lena Gray — Maeve Binchy

Honor, justice, and humanity, call upon us to hold, and to transmit to our posterity, that liberty which we received from our ancestors. It is not our duty to leave wealth to our children, but it is our duty to leave liberty to them. — John Dickinson