Quote

Accept everything just the way it is.

Miyamoto Musashi

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Miyamoto Musashi
Died: 1645
Died: June 13
Author
Bushi
Calligrapher
Military Personnel
Painter
Philosopher
Ronin
Strategist
Writer
Shinmen Takezō
Musashi Masana
Niten
Miyamoto Musashi Niten
Miyamoto Niten
Musashi
Takemura Musashi
Everything
Way
Accept
Accepting

More quotes by Miyamoto Musashi

Image
This is truth: When you sacrifice your life, you must make fullest use of your weaponry. It is false not to do so, and to die with a weapon as yet undrawn.
Miyamoto Musashi
Image
If the enemy thinks of the mountains, attack like the sea and if he thinks of the sea, attack like the mountains.
Miyamoto Musashi
Image
Even if a man has no natural ability, he can be a warrior.
Miyamoto Musashi
Image
When in a fight to the death, one wants to employ all one's weapons to the utmost. I must say that to die with one's sword still sheathed is most regrettable.
Miyamoto Musashi
Image
To become the enemy, see yourself as the enemy of the enemy
Miyamoto Musashi
Image
Immature strategy is the cause of grief.
Miyamoto Musashi
Image
Do not let the body be dragged along by mind nor the mind be dragged along by the body
Miyamoto Musashi
Image
All man are the same except for their belief in their own selves, regardless of what others may think of them
Miyamoto Musashi
Image
It is said the warrior's is the twofold Way of pen and sword, and he should have a taste for both Ways. Even if a man has no natural ability he can be a warrior by sticking assiduously to both divisions of the Way.
Miyamoto Musashi
Image
A bullet from a gun does not make a distinction between practice and combat. You are training to be one and the same way in your life
Miyamoto Musashi
Image
Too much is the same as not enough.
Miyamoto Musashi
Image
The purpose of today's training is to defeat yesterday's understanding.
Miyamoto Musashi
Image
By knowing things that exist, you can know that which does not exist.
Miyamoto Musashi
Image
It is imperative to master the principles of the art of war and learn to be unmoved in mind even in the heat of the battle.
Miyamoto Musashi
Image
When you attack the enemy, your spirit must go to the extent of pulling the stakes out of a wall and using them as spears and halberds.
Miyamoto Musashi
Image
Water adopts the shape of its receptacle, it is sometimes a trickle and sometimes a wild sea.
Miyamoto Musashi
Image
The only reason a warrior is alive is to fight, and the only reason a warrior fights is to win
Miyamoto Musashi
Image
If you are not progressing along the true way, a slight twist in the mind can become a major twist. This must be pondered well.
Miyamoto Musashi
Image
Also by training you will be able to freely control your own body, conquer men with your body, and with sufficient training you will be able to beat ten men with your spirit. When you have reached this point, will it not mean that you are invincible?
Miyamoto Musashi
Image
Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.
Miyamoto Musashi