Samurai Motivational Quotes

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I want to lead an important life. I want to do it because I was born a human being.
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Eiji Yoshikawa (Musashi)
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an action is good when it promotes interests, material or spiritual, as intended by the actor in his motive; and it is bad when it injures interests, material or spiritual, as intended by the actor in his motive.' According
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Kaiten Nukariya (The Religion of the Samurai A Study of Zen Philosophy and Discipline in China and Japan)
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For causes entirely incompatible with reason, or for reasons entirely undeserving of death, hot headed youths rushed into it as insects fly into fire; mixed and dubious motives drove more samurai to this deed than nuns into convent gates. Life was cheapβ€”cheap as reckoned by the popular standard of honor. The saddest feature was that honor, which was always in the agio, so to speak, was not always solid gold, but alloyed with baser metals. No one circle in the Inferno will boast of greater density of Japanese population than the seventh, to which Dante consigns all victims of self-destruction!
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Nitobe Inazō (Bushido: The Soul of Japan (AmazonClassics Edition))
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I promise that if you write faithfully, from your heart, hitting the page with the spirit of a samurai, the results will be both surprising and motivating
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Dario Ciriello (The Fiction Writing Handbook)