Eugen Herrigel Quotes

I take things in stride, go with the flow.

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.

Things change when you learn to loosen your grip. I think one way and the future is desperate. I think another way everything is in sight. Trees bend so branches don't have to break. We mend the wounds of our last mistake... I live one way holding onto the fence post. I live another way sliding off into space. Each life is loosely assembled... Birds swim, fish do fly. Proud man begins to cry. Birds swim, fish do fly. Things change, so why can't I?

My attitude is always let it keep rolling.

There have been many times in my life where I got opportunities that I never thought would be the things that I needed, so I'm always saying, "I want to do this but whatever the universe thinks is right, I'm open." Because otherwise it causes me so much pain if I don't get what I want. It's my least favorite thing.

I don't think of myself as particularly cursed or blessed. I think I got dealt a set of cards, and I'm playing with them, sometimes in heels, sometimes in combat boots.

Sometimes I decide not to make something because I am proud and think I am better than that - and then I realise I have to pay the rent and I have to take something which is even worse than all the other stuff they offer you because you were being so proud not to take it! But you adjust and sometimes for one reason or another there is no strategy at the end but there is the ability to do the best that you can with what you have.

I don't thrive on control. I'm not looking for control. I think I get better results when I don't control things.

It's nice sometimes to be the river rather than the rock.

It's not always the strong that survive. It takes brains, guts, tolerance and forward thinking.

Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution.

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

It's like learning to fall properly. If you can manage not to tighten up you won't hurt yourself as much. The same theory applies to your day, physically and emotionally. The tensions simply can't take hold.

There are going to be times when we can't wait for somebody. Now, you're either on the bus or off the bus. If you're on the bus, and you get left behind, then you'll find it again. If you're off the bus in the first place — then it won't make a damn.

Never, never, never think - that's one lesson you should have in life. Never think that lack of variability is stability.

The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.

I don't think it's something you can be prepared for. I'm just going with the flow.

I think it is fatal to specialize. And all kinds of things show us that and that the more diverse we are in what we can do, the better.

I think kids have got to learn how to work with what's happening, work with social, work with everything. To complain about how things aren't the way they used to be.

It is for little souls, that truckle under the weight of affairs, not to know how clearly to disengage themselves, and not to know how to lay them aside and take them up again.

I’m a guy who doesn’t dwell on stuff. I let things roll off my shoulders.

If you don't become the ocean, you'll be seasick every day.

I think I've gone through my life with the understanding that you've got to let go and you can't think that you're going to control your destiny.

The flower bends when the wind wants it to, and you must become like that-that is, filled with deep #‎ trust .

Receive with simplicity everything that happens to you.