Shotokan Online Quotes & Sayings

From the age of 6 I had a mania for drawing the shapes of things. When I was 50 I had published a universe of designs. But all I have done before the the age of 70 is not worth bothering with. At 75 I'll have learned something of the pattern of nature, of animals, of plants, of trees, birds, fish and insects. When I am 80 you will see real progress. At 90 I shall have cut my way deeply into the mystery of life itself. At 100, I shall be a marvelous artist. At 110, everything I create; a dot, a line, will jump to life as never before. To all of you who are going to live as long as I do, I promise to keep my word. I am writing this in my old age. I used to call myself Hokusai, but today I sign my self 'The Old Man Mad About Drawing. — Hokusai Katsushika

Often people ask, "How can you say you're blessed to have a son with Down syndrome?" My outlook on life has forever changed. I see my own challenges differently. He's always showing me that life is so much bigger than self. — Yvonne Pierre

The only way to win a power struggle is to give it up. — Robert Mandel

It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel — Roland Barthes

The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children. — Marian Wright Edelman

Forty years' worth of days, and ones like those are the ones I remember most, not because I want to but because I have no choice. — Ravi Howard

I am not read well, but when I do read, I read well. — Kurt Cobain

The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is just one small piece of light between two eternal darknesses. — Vladimir Nabokov