Taijutsu Quotes & Sayings

The interesting thing, in the photograph, was how the fragile little knock-kneed boy - smiling sweetly, pristine in his sailor suit - was also the old man who'd clasped my hand while he was dying: two separate frames, superimposed upon each other, of the same soul. And the painting, above his head, was the still point where it all hinged: dreams and signs, past and future, luck and fate. There wasn't a single meaning. There were many meanings. It was a riddle expanding out and out and out. — Donna Tartt

You could have been Bethany Matthews, Delia Hopkins, Cleopatra - it wouldn't matter. And if you'd grown up with a thousand lemon trees in the middle of the desert, with a cactus instead of a Christmas tree and a pet armadillo, well then, I would have gone to law school at Arizona State, I guess. I would have defended illegal aliens crossing the border. But we still would have wound up together, Dee. No matter what kind of life I had, you'd be at the end of it. — Jodi Picoult

People always tend to help others just so that they can feel better than what they really are — Paulo Coelho

The heart of taijutsu is important and only through training
will one polish that heart (like a gem) and understand true
taijutsu. — Toshitsugu Takamatsu

She hated the predictability of herself, but knew life probably wouldn't be long enough for her to grow out of it. — Glen Duncan

I consider it a mutual duty, that we owe to each other, to communicate in a spirit of the utmost frankness and candor. Let it ever be done with unlocked hearts. — Charles Frazier

For taijutsu, the flexibility of the legs is the most important
factor, not the strength of the legs. — Toshitsugu Takamatsu

Progress, whatever your definition of it, is not inevitable. — Barbra Streisand

Life is a series of family photos in which you keep moving to the rear until finally you're a portrait in the background. — Robert Breault

I know you weren't born to make people happy, but if you did one day someone else will make you happy too. — Amna.s

It's never the enemy without who brings you down. It's always the enemy within. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Every time we have an election, we get in worse men and the country keeps right on going. Times have proven only one thing and that is you can't ruin this country even with politics. — Will Rogers

If you do something and it saves your life, it was good
taijutsu. In a real fight, you aren't worried about what's
pretty. — Masaaki Hatsumi

We race the world, and as fast as it rotates, as fast at it revolves, we are faster. — Amy Zhang

Each time we choose to step down for others that is a form of death to self. — Sunday Adelaja