Shoan Quotes & Sayings

Jiu Jitsu is the vehicle. Not the road. — Chris Matakas

If you want to protect me, prayer is just as powerful a weapon as that gun you carry. — Karen Witemeyer

I am interposing overlaid planes a short way off ... To make it understood that things are in front of each other instead of being scattered in space. — Georges Braque

Brutus, I do observe you now of late: I have not from your eyes that gentleness And show of love as I was wont to have: You bear too stubborn and too strange a hand Over your friend that loves you. Poor Brutus, with himself at war, Forgets the shows of love to other men. — William Shakespeare

When you're young, the blue blazer feels like a grown-up costume. — Willie Geist

There did he sit shrivelled in his chimney corner, fretting on account of his weak legs, world weary, will weary, and one day he suffocated through his excessive pity. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Buy Space Ghost cereal, but don't eat the prizes. — Matt Groening

Fit the parts together, one into the other, and build your figure like a carpenter builds a house. Everything must be constructed, composed of parts that make a whole ... — Henri Matisse

Why can't I seem to control my reactions? I stuff. I explode. — Lysa TerKeurst

Rikiu was watching his son Shoan as he swept and
watered the garden path. "Not clean enough," said Rikiu, when Shoan had finished his task, and bade him try again. After a weary hour the son turned to Rikiu: "Father, there is nothing more to be done. The steps have been washed for the third time, the stone lanterns and the trees are well sprinkled with water, moss and lichens are shining with a fresh verdure; not a twig, not a leaf have I left on the ground."
"Young fool," chided the tea-master, "that is not the way a garden path should be swept." Saying this, Rikiu stepped into the garden, shook a tree and scattered over the garden gold and crimson leaves, scraps of the brocade of autumn! — Kakuzo Okakura