"Apply the way of karate to all things. Therein lies its beauty."

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Source : Gichin Funakoshi, Genwa Nakasone, Jotaro Takagi (2003). “空手道二十訓: The Spiritual Legacy of the Master”, p.63, Kodansha International

Gichin Funakoshi

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“If you cannot bear these stories then the society is unbearable. Who am I to remove the clothes of this society, which itself is naked. I don't even try to cover it, because it is not my job, that's the job of dressmakers.”
“The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas, as those of a fool are by his passions. The time of the one is long, because he does not know what to do with it; so is that of the other, because he distinguishes every moment of it with useful or amusing thoughts--or, in other words, because the one is always wishing it away, and the other always enjoying it.”

Source : Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...”, p.309
“One's intelligence may march about and about a problem, but the solution does not come gradually into view. One moment it is not. The next it is there.”
“Put all your soul into it, play the way you feel!”
“There is more weight to be lost and so many more things I need to learn and conquer.”
“my poems covered the bare places in my childhood like the fine, new skin under a scab that hasn't yet fallen off completely.”
“How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what is yours?”
“Music really is a way to reach out and hold on to each other in a healthy way.”

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