Tesshu Quotes & Sayings

If you want to obtain the secrets of such wonderful techniques, drill yourself, harden yourself, undergo severe training, abandoned body and mind; follow this course for years and you will naturally reach the profoundest levels. To know if water is hot or cold you must taste it yourself. — Yamaoka Tesshu

Zen is like soap. First you wash with it, and then you wash off the soap. — Yamaoka Tesshu

If the lot of you survives, Curran will fray the skin off your backs,' Doolittle said.
'That's what I always love about you, Doctor.' Raphael grinned. 'You're a cup-halfway-full kind of guy. All flowers and sunshine. — Ilona Andrews

I have to get a licence to drive a motorcycle to protect myself and the people around me. I am adamant there should be some sort of licensing required to have children. — Tim Allen

It is one thing to let go of the housekeeping. Quite another to relinquish being the center of your children's universe. — Anne-Marie Slaughter

All is well ended if this suit be won. That you express content; which we will pay, With strife to please you, day exceeding day. — William Shakespeare

Do not think that this is all there is. More and more wonderful teachings exist ... — Yamaoka Tesshu

Learning to live for others isn't something that just comes naturally to anybody. You have to train yourself to do it. — Joyce Meyer

As a stone in the sea withers from water,
and a stone at the mountaintop withers from heat,
and a stone in the air withers from wind,
so a degenerate person withers from vice. — Matshona Dhliwayo

He opened his mouth to ask what she was about, but the question never made it past his lips. She was naked from the top of her head to the tips of her toes . . . and absolutely beautiful. His bride was a fine figure of a woman, all soft and round. Just the way he liked his women, and his mouth watered at the sight. But it was a very brief view he got before she tugged a long shirt on and let it drop to curtain all that loveliness. "What the bloody hell is that?" As the first real words he'd said since marrying the woman, Ross supposed they left much to be desired. But he was just so shocked at the sight of the ugly shirt covering all that beauty, he couldn't help himself. — Lynsay Sands

Our treatment of both older people and children reflects the value we place on independence and autonomy. We do our best to make our children independent from birth. We leave them all alone in rooms with the lights out and tell them, Go to sleep by yourselves. And the old people we respect most are the ones who will fight for their independence, who would sooner starve to death than ask for help. — Margaret Mead

The moon does not think to be reflected, nor does the water think to reflect, in the Hirosawa Pond. — Yamaoka Tesshu

Thirst for victory leads to defeat; not tiring of defeat leads to victory. — Yamaoka Tesshu

The world is wide, full of happenings. Keep this in mind and never believe 'I'm the onlyone who knows.' — Yamaoka Tesshu

Isn't about words or beliefs. It's about actions. Going ahead with this even though you're afraid, especially — Kaylea Cross

As a samurai, I must strengthen my character; as a human being I must perfect my spirit — Yamaoka Tesshu