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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My lyrical content is adult shit, but it's not. Everybody curses now, and teenagers swear more than anyone. I've got a three-year-old nephew running around the house saying to me, "Fuck you, you ho." It's fucking insane, man.
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What a delight it is to think that you are quietly & philosophically at work in the pursuit of science... rather than fighting amongst the crowd of black passions & motives that seem now a days to urge men every where into action. What incredible scenes every where, what unworthy motives ruled for the moment, under high sounding phrases and at the last what disgusting revolutions.
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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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Those who are enlightened never stop forging themselves.
