Karate-do

Karate-do begins and ends with bowing.

一、空手道は礼に始まり礼に終る事を忘るな

Hitotsu, karate-do wa rei ni hajimari rei ni owaru koto o wasuru na

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. ~Aristotle

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light. ~Helen Keller 

We can’t be afraid of change.

We can’t be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea. Holding onto something that is good for you now, may be the very reason why you don’t have something better.

so..

Go for it, while you can. I know you have it in you. And I can’t promise you’ll get everything you want, but I can promise nothing will change if you don’t try.

12 Remarkable Maya Angelou Quotes

The honorary duty of a human being is to love.
I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant.
Talent is like electricity. We don’t understand electricity. We use it. You can plug into it and light up a lamp, keep a heart pump going, light a cathedral, or you can electrocute a person with it.
When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.
My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
Life loves the liver of it.
The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
When you learn, teach, when you get, give.
Some critics will write ‘Maya Angelou is a natural writer’ - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon.

Favorite quotes from Sam Winchester.

How hard is it to stop the heart from loving?

Your inner beauty never needs makeup.

Your happiness > mine

A smile is the lighting system of the face, the cooling system of the head and the heating system of the heart.

Tears Are Words The Heart Can’t Say

Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see Life with a clearer view again.

The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh - Samuel Beckett

Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness - Steve Maraboli

Past mistakes cannot create a present pain; no mistake in life has the power to make us ache any more than the echo of someone crying can shed tears.

If you choose to be sad then you will be sad but there times you don’t know why you’re sad. Tears start flowing from your eyes - Ann Marie Aguilar

Our tears are precious, necessary, and part of what make us such endearing creatures - David Richo

truth can set you free or put you in a whole new prison

When 

I 

let go 

of 

what I am, 

I become 

what 

I might 

be.

 ~Lao Tzu~

the only way out is through.

if nothing else, one day you can look someone straight in the eyes and say, "but i lived through it, and it made me who i am today."




a drop in the ocean, a change in the weather, i was praying that you and me might end up together.

We cling to

We cling to music, to poems, to quotes, to writing, to art because we desperately do not want to be alone. We want to know we aren’t going crazy and someone else out there knows exactly how you’re feeling. We want someone to explain the things we can’t.

Damon Quotes

who will?

believe in love. believe in magic. hell, believe in
santa clause. believe in others. believe in yourself.
believe in your dreams. because if you don't,
who will? - jon bon jovi

god made the world round so we would
never be able to see too far down the road.

the truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy or unfulfilled. for it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.

Stronger Braver Smarter

well with fortune tellers

if you have enough time to hate someone you don’t know, you have enough time to improve your own life. — denzel washington

be careful how you treat people on your way up, because you might meet them again on your way down.


never walk through the path that has already been walked. because it only takes you where others have already been.


everybody knows how to love, but only few people know how to stay in love with the one person for a very long time

G'Night~ xxo

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when a girl is in love, you can see it in her smile.

when a boy is in love, you can see it in his eyes.

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can’t lose what you never had, can’t keep what’s not yours,

and can’t hold onto something that does not want to stay.

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we all have time machines. some take us back, they're called

memories. others take us FORWARD, they're called dreams

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it's not always going to be perfect

learn to appreciate what you have, before
time forces you to appreciate what you had.

i'm not saying every day is going to be worth waking up in the morning for, it's not always going to be perfect, but you have to move on, you have to get up, or you’ll never stumble upon the days that really, truly are worth
waking up for.'

it's amazing how two people can be so
perfect for each other; but they're
both too scared to get hurt that they
don't do anything about it.

Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.

It's taken me a long time to accept who he is and who he will never be.

Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.

No one falls in love by choice, it’s by chance.
 No one stays in love by chance, it’s by work.
 No one falls out of love by chance, it’s by choice

we're all in the game, just different levels; dealing with the same hell, just different devil

when i stand before God at the end of my life,
 i would hope that i would not have a single bit of talent left. 
i would hope that i could say, “i used everything you gave me.”

-- emma bombeck --

the first step towards getting somewhere is… to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.

you know how every now and then, you have a moment where your whole life stretches out ahead of you like a forked road, and even as you choose one gritty path you've got your eyes on the other the whole time, certain that you're making a mistake? 
--My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult -

nothing travels faster than the speed of
light with the possible exception of bad news,
which obeys its own special laws

any pain you're going through; it will end. Take a breath. think of that one happy thing in your life and smile. live another day; it's worth it.