Yamamoto Tsunetomo Quotes

A great life is to be able to ebb and flow.

I'm pretty good on my feet. I'm pretty decent at bobbing and weaving, but there's only so long you can bob and weave when you don't have a good base.

Expect everything so that nothing comes unexpected.

It's your choice, what you do with the moment. If you're stuck in a traffic jam, you can get angry and honk your horn, or listen to Mozart. But when you have a very specific expectation of how things should be, then, of course, you end up hurting yourself.

Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.

You can be stubborn and successful or you can give it up a bit and change things around. For me it's important to have a bit of both.

A capacity to change is indispensable. Equally indispensable is the capacity to hold fast to that which is good.

Well, sir, you never can tell. That's a principle in life with me, sir, if you'll excuse my having such a thing.

It is not balance you need but adaptability.

One of the most important things a person can learn to do is to make something out of whatever he or she happens to have at the moment.

Learn to wait; invariably either things will change or your heart will.

Whatever life may send your way - make the best of it. Don't waste your time and energy worrying about it. Instead, find a way to do something about it. Learn from it, adjust to it, be strong, be flexible and be your best in every situation.

Prepare yourself for the world, as athletes used to do for their exercises; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do.

I change my opinions often, but not my way of thinking.

In my life nothing goes wrong. When things seem to not meet my expectations, I let go of how I think things should be. It's a matter of not having any attachment to any fixed outcome.

I love yoga in general. It's so important for me to incorporate it into my routine, it's important for my sanity!

Pray for the best, prepare for the worst, and expect the unexpected.

The best path to happiness is learning to change as rapidly as life does.

A warrior of light needs both patience and speed. He treats each situation as if it were unique.

You always got to be prepared but you never know for what.

Anarchism has a broad back, like paper it endures anything.

Be flexible, but stick to your principles.

We explore within postures everything we deal with in life: the interplay between resistance and surrender; establishing stability and maintaining flexibility; learning to receive and release; being present to all the complexities of our lives, and returning to the fundamentals of our "beginner's mind" again and again.

It is more important to know who you are than where you are going, for where you are going will change as the world around you changes.

Acceptance means: For now, this is what this situation, this moment, requires me to do, and so I do it willingly.