"A wounded tiger is a dangerous beast."

-- Arthur Golden

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“Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.”
“I'm an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.”
“To express gratitude is gracious and honorable, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live with gratitude ever in our hearts is to touch heaven.”
“There's something fundamentally wrong with a system where there's been 17 years of a Tory Government and the people of Scotland have voted Socialist for 17 years. That hardly seems democratic.”
“A random act of kindness, no matter how small, can make a tremendous impact on someone else's life.”
“Growing up in Memphis and listening to all kinds of music and dreaming... So that was one of the first times I wrote a complete song and set it to music and the whole bit. From then on, I was busy with it.”
“Commerce, trade and exchange make other people more valuable alive than dead, and mean that people try to anticipate what the other guy needs and wants. It engages the mechanisms of reciprocal altruism, as the evolutionary biologists call it, as opposed to raw dominance.”
“If you were all alone in the universe with no one to talk to, no one with which to share the beauty of the stars, to laugh with, to touch, what would be your purpose in life? It is other life; it is love, which gives your life meaning. This is harmony. We must discover the joy of each other, the joy of challenge, the joy of growth.”

Source : Mitsugi Saotome (1993). “Aikido and the Harmony of Nature”, p.340, Shambhala Publications

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