Everyone worries about things that don’t matter. Worrying is like taking poison and hoping it will kill your enemies.
Anonymous - The Book of Five Rings
Don't worry about losing, worry about not winning.
Anonymous - The Book of Five Rings
I am a strong believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
Anonymous - The Book of Five Rings
Most people dream of being famous. I have found that most people would rather be normal and not noticed at all.
Anonymous - The Book of Five Rings
Most people who fly planes into buildings do so because they are afraid to fail. Most people who endure hard work and painful discipline in school or sports do so because they fear failure
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Most people who succeed in life's struggles do so because they have a goal beyond themselves, a dream to make life meaningful and worthwhile, a vision for what they would like to become. In short, most people who achieve truly great things in life did not do them because they were afraid to fail or feared being ordinary men or women. They did them because they knew in the depths of their souls that only greatness was within their reach.
They understood that there is no greater honor than giving all you have to give for something you believe in, something bigger than yourself. That is why most great men and women never had any regrets or second thoughts about their lives or deaths or choices or decisions or failures or successes or victories or defeats: They never accepted mediocrity as an alternative to the higher road that leads to greatness .
. they knew that if they gave all they had to give , something great would come back from it.
Anonymous - The Book of Five Rings
The purpose of life is a happy death . There is no greater gift than to die at the height of one's powers and strengths, leaving behind one's own mortality and leaving behind the world a better place than when we lived in it .
We cannot live with ourselves after we die; we cannot be good citizens in the world after we leave this world; we cannot be remembered with any sense of gratitude for what we achieved here on Earth; but our lives can be redeemed one day by our leaving behind us a legacy of betterment , a legacy whose true measure is its ability to improve the lives of others; above all by doing this we can redeem ourselves from our own mortality and show our fellow man how good we were and how much we accomplished here