Yagyu Jubei Mitsuyoshi quotes

Yagyu Jubei Mitsuyoshi quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“The undisturbed mind is like the calm body water reflecting the brilliance of the moon. Empty the mind and you will realize the undisturbed mind.”
-- Yagyu Jubei Mitsuyoshi

#Warrior Quotes #Moon Quotes #Water Quotes
“The sky is the sky wherever you go.”
-- Yagyu Jubei Mitsuyoshi

#Sky Quotes

“You know, [women] do not really condemn any weakness: rather, they try to humiliate or disarm our strengths. That is why women arethe reward, not of the warrior, but of the criminal.”
“Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.”
“The Romans thought of themselves as the chosen people, yet they built the greatest army on Earth by recruiting warriors from any background.”
“I absolutely believe the past had its share of warrior women who fought like men. Whether some of these were the actual Amazons from Greek myth is another matter.”
“But even when the moon looks like it's waning...it's actually never changing shape. Don't ever forget that.”
“Yet just as the day has two halves, one governed by the sun and the other by the moon, so there are many who are people of the day and who busy themselves with daytime deeds, whilst others are children of the night, their minds consumed with nocturnal notions; but yet there are some in whom the two merge like the rising of the sun and the moon in a day.”
“He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back”
“The Holy Spirit is just as truly in us when He makes no sign as when the fountains of joy are overflowing, or the waters of peace are softly refreshing our weary and troubled heart.”
“The Baptists' basic theology is that if you hold someone under water long enough, he'll come around to your way of thinking. It's a ritual known as 'Bobbing for Baptists.'”

Source : A. Whitney Brown (1991). “The Big Picture: An American Commentary”, Harper Perennial
“Dinner with water is dinner for prisoners”

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