Yamada Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes you just have to take the leap and build your wings on the way down. — Kobi Yamada

Someday all you will have to light your way will be a single ray of hope and that will be enough. — Kobi Yamada

The practice of Zen is forgetting the self in the act of uniting with something. — Yamada Koun

Everything is a once in a lifetime experience. — Kobi Yamada

Every now and then, bite off more than you can chew. — Kobi Yamada

We must remember that one of the most insidious ways of keeping women and minorities powerless is to let them only talk about harmless and inconsequential subjects ... — Mitsuye Yamada

Love is blind; people aren't.

Chubby Chaser, 11/21/14 — Kahoko Yamada

She didn't need friends; she needed to be a bigger bitch.

Chubby Chaser, 11/21/14. Available for preorder on Amazon. — Kahoko Yamada

Every moment is the manifestation of the whole. Life itself is, therefore, nothing but the continuous moment of the whole, and everybody is living the continuous moment of the whole. — Yamada Koun

He looks kind, but he's really a huge sex fiend. He's perverted and spoiled and always jealous. And he hasn't called me for two weeks. But he's cool, isn't he? My guy. I'm the only one that knows...that the coolest part of him is his naked back. — Yugi Yamada

Never Doubt
There comes a moment when you begin to realize that virtually anything is possible - that nothing is too good to be true. — Kobi Yamada

The future is sending back good wishes and waiting with open arms. — Kobi Yamada

the adaptive nature of our brain inevitably follows that we, and only we can decide which part of our mind to cultivate, and which part to leave withering and decaying. — Yamada Takumi

Some experiences simply do not translate. you have to go to know. — Kobi Yamada

Be good to yourself. If you don't take care of your body, where will you live? — Kobi Yamada

In a future time when most human thought has been accelerated by artificial intelligence and external memory can be shared on a universal matrix... GITS 2 — Masaki Yamada

In the same way your life is the continuity of standing up, sitting down, laughing, sleeping, waking up, drinking, eating, and, of course, being born and dying. That is the continuity of the whole universe. — Yamada Koun

Yamada might be a good general - Mat did not know - but he had never stood a chance against Riselle and that marvelous bosom. — Robert Jordan

The entrance into Zen is the grasping of one's essential nature. It is absolutely impossible, however, to come to a clear understanding of our essential nature by any intellectual or philosophical method. It is accomplished only by the experience of self-realization through zazen. — Yamada Koun

Someone who wants to attain enlightenment must be brave. He must rush into the crowd of enemies with a dagger. In the practice of Zen, enemies are our delusive thoughts and passions. — Yamada Koun

If the majority culture know so little about us, it must be our problem, they seem to be telling us; the burden of teaching is on us. — Mitsuye Yamada

Believe in your dreams. Believe in today. Believe that you are loved. Believe that you make a difference. Believe we can build a better world. Believe when others might not. Believe there's a light at the end of the tunnel. Believe that you might be that light for someone else. Believe that the best is yet to be. Believe in each other. Believe in yourself. I believe in you. — Kobi Yamada

When I was up on stage, Hal-san pointed toward where you were seated. Hal-san knew the general area where you where seated but he said he couldn't find you because there were too many people. But I found you and I saw only you because you were beaming bright like a spotlight was shining upon you. That's how you appeared to me. — Yamada Nanpei

Embrace your uniqueness. Time is much too short to be living someone else's life. — Kobi Yamada

A very enjoyable meditation on the curious thing called 'Zen' -not the Japanese religious tradition but rather the Western clich of Zen that is embraced in advertising, self-help books, and much more ... Yamada, who is both a scholar of Buddhism and a student of archery, offers refreshing insight into Western stereotypes of Japan and Japanese culture, and how these are received in Japan. — Alexander Gardner

We need to raise our voices a little more, even as they say to us, 'This is so uncharacteristic of you.' Invisibility is not a natural state for anyone. — Mitsuye Yamada

Believe there is a light at the end of the tunnel. Believe that you may be that light for someone else. — Kobi Yamada

Follow your dreams. They know the way. — Kobi Yamada

If you want to make the days of your life really matter, then you must love something. — Kobi Yamada

The purpose of Zen is the perfection of character. — Yamada Koun

When I was at the University I knew a law student named Yamada Uruu. Later he worked for the Osaka Municipal Office; he's been dead for years. This man's father was an old-time lawyer, or "advocate," who in early Meiji defended the notorious murderess Takahashi Oden. It seems he often talked to his son about Oden's beauty. Apparently he would corner him and go on and on about her, as if deeply moved. "You might call her alluring, or bewitching," he would say. "I've never known such a fascinating woman, she's a real vampire. When I saw her I thought I wouldn't mind dying at the hands of a woman like that!"

Since I have no particular reason to keep on living, sometimes I think I would be happier if a woman like Oden turned up to kill me. Rather than endure the pain of these half-dead arms and legs of mine, maybe I could get it over and at the same time see how it feels to be brutally murdered. — Jun'ichiro Tanizaki

Believe that there's light at the end of the tunnel. Believe that you might be that light for someone else. — Kobi Yamada

Every life comes with a story ... and a possibility for a great adventure. — Kobi Yamada

Intense desire not only creates its own possibilities, but its own talents. Don't be afraid to do something just because it's impossible. — Kobi Yamada

Be infinitely curious and creative for the world is infinitely vast and beautiful. — Kota Yamada

In fact, knowing she'd been through hardship filled me with sweet tenderness. — Taichi Yamada