"Hold on to your life and make it honest and brave."

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Source : Eiji Yoshikawa (1981). “Musashi”, HarperCollins Publishers

Eiji Yoshikawa

#Brave Quotes #Honest Quotes

“You can't assume the best about people. If I get a girl home and she takes her pants off, and it looks like she's got herpes, I can't afford to assume she got stung by a pack of bees.”
“True freedom requires taking responsibility for your own life. That frightens the hell out of too many people. They prefer to have Big Brother holding a safety net for them, and they'll sell their own birthright and their children's as well to keep it.”
“If I bring back only one gold people are going to say it's a disappointment. But not too many of them own an Olympic gold medal so if I get one I'm going to be happy.”
“The language of [Catholic] mysticism - its repeated attempts to lay consciousness itself bare and speak all the intensely opposing yet interconnected parts of it that cannot be spoken.”
“It's not my goal, definitely. I mean, I don't think it's something I can really achieve. Definitely she's a great champion - she has nine titles. But it's nice to see her in the locker room, and she's smiling and she's happy for me. She's really cheering for me. It's nice to have someone like her.”
“To the intelligent man with an interest in human nature it must often appear strange that so much of the energy of the scientific world has been spent on the study of the body and so little on the study of the mind.”

Source : Edward Thorndike (2017). “Animal Intelligence: Experimental Studies”, p.312, Routledge
“The art of reading consists in remembering the essentials and forgetting non essentials.”
“Movie stars are insecure like everyone else. Thats why they go into acting!”

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