Morihei Ueshiba Quotes
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By my mid-20s, I was a total mess.
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When your mother dies, it really hurts. But with time, you get used to it. That's nature's way.
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Our faith in others betrays that we would rather have faith in ourselves. Our longing for a friend is our betrayer. And often with our love we want merely to overcome envy. And often we attack and make ourselves enemies, to conceal that we are vulnerable.
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Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
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They're looking at the cold weather coming. That's what you're seeing in the market right now.
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Maybe all that matters is that they love each other, still, the way people who have known each other will always love each other.
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“Heather resented it that this woman was his daughter. How does a writer of the most subtle, serious fiction end up with a daughter who watches Oprah? I’d be a better daughter for him than she is.
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I deal in volume. To sell volume, it must be affordable. So that's my whole life, is to make it affordable.
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Illiteracy must be banished from the land if we shall attain that high destiny as the foremost of the enlightened nations of the world which, under Providence, we ought to achieve.
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To know others is to have knowledge. To know yourself is to be enlightened.
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Not everyone who is enlightened by an angel knows that he is enlightened by him.
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Do not try to become anything. Do not make yourself into anything. Do not be a meditator. Do not become enlightened. When you sit, let it be. What you walk, let it be. Grasp at nothing. Resist nothing.
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There are many diamonds in the world and if you lose your favorite, you can work hard, earn a lot of money and get another one to replace it. But the moments of your life aren't like that. Once they're gone, they'll never return. Each and every one is the most precious thing in existence. You can never meaningfully compare one moment with any other. You can never meaningfully compare your life with anyone else's. No matter how rich someone else may be, no matter how happy they look, no matter how enlightened they seem, they can never be you. Never, ever, ever. Only you can live your life.
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He that fancies himself very enlightened, because he sees the deficiencies of others, may be very ignorant, because he has not studied his own.
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We know that to wage a nuclear war today, for example, would be a form of suicide; or that to pollute the air or the oceans in order to achieve some short-term benefit would be to destroy the very basis for our survival.
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Maybe that's because guns are sold at a profit, while schools are provided by the government.
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And real nobility (that of the heart) is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.
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Those who are enlightened never stop forging themselves.
