#samurai

I'm kind of like a samurai. They say if you want to be a samurai, you can't be afraid of dying, and as soon as you flinch, you get your head cut off. I'm not afraid of losing this business. ↗

— Yvon Chouinard

#business #cut #dying #get #head

Wikkity, every time you punch a ninja…an angel gets its wings ↗

— Eric Anderson

#humor

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

A man who can't uphold his beliefs is pathetic dead or alive - Hajime Saito ↗

— Watsuki Nobuhiro

#manga #samurai #manga

There are 3 reasons for why you can't beat me. First, I'm better looking than you are. Second, your blows are too light. And third, there's nothing in the world I can't tear up. ↗

— Akimine Kamijyo

#adventure #comedy #demon-eyes-kyo #manga #samurai

Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai. ↗

— Orlando Bloom

#angelic #created #elves #graceful #human strength

Summer grasses, All that remains Of soldiers' dreams ↗

— Matsuo Bashō

#samurai #wisdom #dreams

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

Working on the Samurai sword is very different because your body position has to be very still. It's a much quieter was of fighting. ↗

— Lucy Liu

#body #different #fighting #much #position