Yamaoka 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

The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. — Leo Tolstoy

Whatever affection we have for our friends or relations, the happiness of others never suffices for our own. — Luc De Clapiers

Honestly, I'm blessed with good genes and a good sense of discipline - I eat whatever I want, but I eat very controlled portions and stop when I'm full. — Alice Greczyn

I suppose it is a bit of a date that we're having at the moment. As is usually the case you don't get married on a first date, you've got to go out a few times before you make any big decisions. — Aidy Boothroyd

There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure that they are atheists; it is with them only a question of definition, and in any case, if they do not believe in God, being great minds, they prove God. — Victor Hugo

Slim Shady, Eminem was the old initials. — Eminem

I think we are responsible for the universe, but that doesn't mean we decide anything. — Rene Magritte

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

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

We in Ireland are gifted beyond most peoples with a talent for acting, and in Dublin especially, while scorning culture, which indeed we have not got, we are possessed of a most futile and diverting cleverness. — Susan Mitchell

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

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

They had ganged up on her, in the claustrophobic, loving way of families, and she wanted no more of it. — Gregory Maguire

When I was 13, I entered the seminary in the hope of becoming a priest. But I often found myself helping the nuns in the kitchen and thus discovered my passion for cooking. I began to cultivate my skills and aspirations at the age of 15, when I embarked on my first apprenticeship. — Joel Robuchon

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

Power, safely defied, touches its downfall. — Thomas B. Macaulay

On handing the book back to my friend, the woman inquired "Is he gay?" No, said my friend. The woman pondered for a moment. "Is he English?" she asked. — Terry Eagleton