#samurai

You can always die. It's living that takes real courage." - Himura Kenshin ↗

— Watsuki Nobuhiro

#manga #samurai #courage

What do I geek out about? What am I? Hmmm. I love movies. I watch movies. I like big, sweeping epics, like Ed Zwick stuff: 'The Last Samurai,' 'Legends of the Fall,' 'Blood Diamond,' 'Glory.' ↗

— Chris Evans

#am #big #blood #diamond #ed

Blackthorne, beside the gates, was still turmoiled by his boundless joy at her reprieve and he remembered how his own will had been stretched that night of his near-seppuku, when he had had to get up as a man and walk home as a man unsupported, and became samurai. And he watched her, despising the need for this courage, yet understanding it, even honoring it. ↗

— James Clavell

#samurai #samurai-bushido-seppuku #strength-of-mind #courage

Fighting isn't all there is to the Art of War. The men who think that way, and are satisfied to have food to eat and a place to sleep, are mere vagabonds. A serious student is much more concerned with training his mind and disciplining his spirit than with developing martial skills. ↗

— Eiji Yoshikawa

#war #warrior #art

New eras don't come about because of swords, they're created by the people who wield them. ↗

— Watsuki Nobuhiro

#samurai #manga

I'm not a fighter, but in my mind I'm fighting every day. 'What's new? What am I doing?' I'm fighting myself. My soul is samurai. My roots aren't samurai, but my soul is. ↗

— Masaharu Morimoto

#day #doing #every #every day #fighter

A samurai should always be prepared for death - whether his own or someone else's. ↗

— Stan Sakai

#be prepared #death #else #his #own

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