#martial

The best fighter is never angry. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#anger-management #ataraxy #bushido #inner-peace #martial-arts

If you take a bus, you should know when to get off!". ↗

— Master Iain Armstrong

#martial-arts #art

I can show you the path but I can not walk it for you. ↗

— Master Iain Armstrong

#martial-arts #art

In Japan, a number of time-honored everyday activities (such as making tea, arranging flowers, and writing) have traditionally been deeply examined by their proponents. Students study how to make tea, perform martial arts, or write with a brush in the most skillful way possible to express themselves with maximum efficiency and minimum strain. Through this efficient, adroit, and creative performance, they arrive at art. But if they continue to delve even more deeply into their art, they discover principles that are truly universal, principles relating to life itself. Then, the art of brush writing becomes shodo—the “Way of the brush”—while the art of arranging flowers is elevated to the status of kado—the “Way of flowers.” Through these Ways or Do forms, the Japanese have sought to realize the Way of living itself. They have approached the universal through the particular. ↗

— H.E. Davey

#budo #do #efficiency #flowers #ikebana

I wanted to be a martial arts film star when I was a teenager. ↗

— Chris Daughtry

#film #film star #i #martial #martial arts

Since my teen years I was interested in martial arts. ↗

— Tony Visconti

#i #interested #martial #martial arts #since

As a kid, I was heavily into martial arts and wanted to be the next Jean-Claude Van Damme. ↗

— Chris Daughtry

#heavily #i #into #kid #martial

I always thought martial arts was the most modern choreography we could have right now, and I always wanted to put it to music. ↗