I leave you, to go the road we all must go. The road I would choose, if only I could, is the other

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Murasaki Shikibu

If you are scorched earth, I will be warm rain

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Murasaki Shikibu

It is in general the unexplored that attracts us.

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Murasaki Shikibu

No art or learning is to be pursued halfheartedly...and any art worth learning will certainly reward more or less generously the effort made to study it.

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Murasaki Shikibu

farewell' is a monster among words, and never yet sounded kindly in any ear.

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Murasaki Shikibu

The world know it not; but you, Autumn, I confess it: your wind at night-fall stabs deep into my heart

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Murasaki Shikibu

Real things in the darkness seem no realer than dreams

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Murasaki Shikibu

You are here to remind me of someone I long for, and what is it you long for yourself? We must have been together in an earlier life, you and I.

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Murasaki Shikibu

Do not, under any circumstances, depend on a partial feeling.

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Miyamoto Musashi

Perceive that which cannot be seen with the eye.

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Miyamoto Musashi

If you wish to control others you must first control yourself

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Miyamoto Mushashi

Step by step walk the thousand-mile road.

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Miyamoto Musashi

Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world.

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Miyamoto Musashi

there is nothing outside of yourself that can ever enable you to get better, stronger, richer, quicker, or smarter. Everything is within. Everything exists. Seek nothing outside of yourself.

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Miyamoto Musashi

Today is victory over yourself of yesterday; tomorrow is your victory over lesser men.

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Miyamoto Musashi

To know ten thousand things, know one well

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Miyamoto Musashi

Truth is not what you want it to be; it is what it is.

And you must bend to its power or live a lie.

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Miyamoto Musashi

You can only fight the way you practice

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Miyamoto Musashi

You must understand that there is more than one path to the top of the mountain

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Miyamoto Musashi

"The universe is the scripture of Buddha, and all phenomena are its characters."

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Kūkai