"The right art is purposeless, aimless! The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal, the less you will succeed in the one and the further the other will recede."

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Source : Eugen Herrigel (1964). “Zen”

D.T. Suzuki

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“Let us play the game of life as sportsmen, pocketing our winnings with a smile, leaving our losings with a shrug.”
“I thought I had too much money to be happy and normal. Thousand of pounds is just too much for a working person to handle all of a sudden, and I felt I didnt deserve it.”
“The patient needs an experience, not an explanation.”
“In life, so many things are taken for granted, but one thing I can honestly say is that I took every day, enjoyed the game of putting on that uniform and playing the great game of baseball.”
“Negative thoughts are contagious and they get passed around like a disease. I inoculate myself against the fear of failure.”
“You must live feverishly in a library. Colleges are not going to do any good unless you are raised and live in a library everyday of your life.”
“America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer.”

Source : Rebecca Harding Davis (1904). “Bits of Gossip”
“The fricassee with dumplings is made by a Mrs. Miller whose husband has left her four times on account of her disposition and returned four times on account of her cooking...”

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