Samurai Bushido Seppuku Quotes & Sayings

Miz Fitz,
If my boyfriend would just once say "I'm sorry, I was wrong," I think I would die and go to heaven.
-Hellbound, a Lass
Miz Fitz sez:
You should wish for something realistic, like world peace. — Pete Hautman

But, God knows best, I concluded. — Anne Bronte

When you die, they can make you into diamonds now. It's scientific. That's how I want to be remembered. I want to shine. — Neil Gaiman

I'm serious, baby. The Doors are the only western rock band that really gets the heart and soul of Japan. A samurai knows that he can die at any time. That's what makes life precious. And don't even talk to me about lame hippie whiners like John Fogerty and Creedence Clearwater revival. Jim Morrison . . . samurai! John Fogerty . . . ham on rye! — Carol Storm

I'm an actor who directs. Probably always will be. — Clark Johnson

Do it with passion or not at all. — Anonymous

Blackthorne, beside the gates, was still turmoiled by his boundless joy at her reprieve and he remembered how his own will had been stretched that night of his near-seppuku, when he had had to get up as a man and walk home as a man unsupported, and became samurai. And he watched her, despising the need for this courage, yet understanding it, even honoring it. — James Clavell

Concentrate on the correct movements each time you exercise, lest you do them improperly and thus lose all the vital benefits of their value. — Joseph Pilates

Meditation isn't just something we do to make ourselves more peaceful and to take some of the stress out of our lives. We do it because it's the only direct experience we can have of knowing God. Because God is that which is indivisible. Everything else in the universe, in the physical world, is divisible. Up and down, good and bad, right and wrong, male and female, and so on. But that which is indivisible in our physical experience is called silence. And when you get into silence, you're coming to know the indivisibleness of your life - and that's conscious contact. — Wayne Dyer

Interestingly, the very experience of fear itself is the tip-off moment, the signal that a possibility for action is opening up and so a choice needs to be made. — Robert Biswas-Diener

I consider myself perfectly normal, and I don't know of any part of my life that would be so unusual as to interest the idly curious. — George Harrison

Our problems are technical, not political — Jacque Fresco

With my family background - my parents were both activists - writing about culture and politics came naturally. — Alexander Chee

That's really a part of my nature , it goes along with autonomy and independence of action - it's just that I don't identify with the local group, no matter what it is, whether it's the human species or the American democracy, the nation, the country, religions, political parties, nothing. None of these have my allegiance because I'm not really concerned with what they do. I don't feel a part of any of this. — George Carlin

I think Mrs. Leidner seems happier already from just talking about it. That's always a help, you know. It's bottling things up that makes them get on your nerves. — Agatha Christie

Seen many betrayals, and many broken hearts. There are those who let their grief devour them. Who forget that others also feel pain. — Cassandra Clare

Who would I be, if other good souls did not make up for my shortcomings? — Orson Scott Card