#samurai

I dreamt of worldly success once. ↗

— Miyamoto Musashi

#religion #samurai #religion

I'm kind of like a samurai. They say if you want to be a samurai, you can't be afraid of dying, and as soon as you flinch, you get your head cut off. I'm not afraid of losing this business. ↗

— Yvon Chouinard

#business #cut #dying #get #head

Bushido is realized in the presence of death. This means choosing death whenever there is a choice between life and death. There is no other reasoning. ↗

— Yamamoto Tsunetomo

#courage #death #honor #japanese #sacrifice

I want to lead an important life. I want to do it because I was born a human being. ↗

— Eiji Yoshikawa

#samurai #motivational

The sword was a very elegant weapon in the days of the samurai. You had honor and chivalry much like the knights, and yet it was a gruesome and horrific weapon. ↗

— Dustin Diamond

#days #elegant #gruesome #had #honor

I don't get over the wonder of it, and 'The Last Samurai' was an extreme example of that. Every day when I went to the set, I couldn't believe what I was seeing. ↗

— Tony Goldwyn

#day #every #every day #example #extreme

Summer grasses, All that remains Of soldiers' dreams ↗

— Matsuo Bashō

#samurai #wisdom #dreams

Samurai culture did exist really, for hundreds of years and the notion of people trying to create some sort of a moral code, the idea that there existed certain behaviors that could be celebrated and that could be operative in a life. ↗

— Edward Zwick

#celebrated #certain #code #could #create

I look at the Samurai because they were the artists of their time. What I think struck me when I read Bushido is compassion. 'If there's no one there to help, go out and find someone to help.' That hit me, because I try to lead my life like that. ↗

— Tom Cruise

#because #compassion #find #go #help