#Art Quotes #Mind Quotes #Body Quotes
“The more you meditate the better life gets.”
“Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.”
“She says you're not truly human until you've had your heart broken and you've broken someone's heart.”
Source : Catherine Gilbert Murdock (2009). “Front and Center”, p.210, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“The gateways to wisdom and knowledge are always open.”
“Tomorrow doesn't really exist.”
“We can what-if ourselves to death... But what-if never does anybody any good. All any of us ever have...is one thing, and we better make the most of it while we can: What is.”
“Yes, I heard my people singing!-in the glow of parlor coal-stove and on summer porches sweet with lilac air, from choir loft and Sunday morning pews-and my soul was filled with their harmonies. Then, too, I heard these songs in the very sermons of my father, for in the Negro's speech there is much of the phrasing and rhythms of folk-song. The great, soaring gospels we love are merely sermons that are sung; and as we thrill to such gifted gospel singers as Mahalia Jackson, we hear the rhythmic eloquence of our preachers, so many of whom, like my father, are masters of poetic speech.”
“I suspected that there were things he knew that I had been waiting all my life to learn.”
Source : Jane Smiley (2011). “A Thousand Acres: A Novel”, p.69, Anchor
Anko Itosu
Bodhidharma Biographer
Gogen Yamaguchi
Kano Jigoro Martial Artist
Kenwa Mabuni
Mas Oyama
Morihei Ueshiba Martial Artist
Shigeru Egami
Tsutomu Ohshima
