Quotes by Eiji Yoshikawa

Eiji Yoshikawa

I want to dedicate myself to training and discipline. I want to spend every moment of every day working to improve myself.

Discipline

Training

Want

I want to lead an important life. I want to do it because I was born a human being.

Born

Important

Want

I wouldn’t say Musashi is ordinary. But he is. That’s what’s extraordinary about him. He is not content to rely on whatever natural gifts he may have. Knowing he is ordinary, he is constantly trying to improve himself. No one appreciates the agonizing effort he’s had to make. Now that his years of training have yielded such spectacular results, everybody’s talking about his ‘God-given talent.’ That’s how men who don’t try very hard comfort themselves.

Men

Talking

Years

If a man wanted to put the entire universe in his breast, he couldn’t do it with his chest stuck out.

Breasts

Men

Stuck

It does happen, of course, that the priesthood has been on bad terms with womankind for some three thousand years. You see, Buddhism teaches that women are evil. Fiends. Messengers of hell. I’ve spent years immersed in the scriptures, so it’s no accident that you and I fight all the time.

Buddhism

Fighting

Years

It is easy to crush an enemy outside oneself but impossible to defeat an enemy within.

Crush

Enemy

Impossible

it is easy to surpass a predecessor, but difficult to avoid being surpassed by a successor.

Difficult

Easy

Successors

It’s interesting, isn’t it? Being in the world.

Interesting

World

It’s no good to want to win still more when you have already won.

Stills

Want

Winning

Love was like a toothache.

Toothache

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Courtiers

Cracks

Crow

Crush

Dating

Difficult

Discipline

Disguise

Doe

Doubt

Drunk

Dying

East

Easy

Empty

Enemy

Expression

Eye

Eyelids

Fighting

Great Character

Hardship

Heart

Honest

House

Important

Impossible

Inspired

Interesting

Joy

Law

Life And Death

Life Happiness

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Looks

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Mountain

Names

Night

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Quotes by Eiji Yoshikawa

Eiji Yoshikawa

I want to dedicate myself to training and discipline. I want to spend every moment of every day working to improve myself.

I want to lead an important life. I want to do it because I was born a human being.

If a man wanted to put the entire universe in his breast, he couldn’t do it with his chest stuck out.

It does happen, of course, that the priesthood has been on bad terms with womankind for some three thousand years. You see, Buddhism teaches that women are evil. Fiends. Messengers of hell. I’ve spent years immersed in the scriptures, so it’s no accident that you and I fight all the time.

It is easy to crush an enemy outside oneself but impossible to defeat an enemy within.

it is easy to surpass a predecessor, but difficult to avoid being surpassed by a successor.

It’s interesting, isn’t it? Being in the world.

It’s no good to want to win still more when you have already won.

Love was like a toothache.

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