FACE A SINGLE FOE as if you are facing ten thousand enemies; face ten thousand enemies as a single foe.
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FACE A SINGLE FOE as if you are facing ten thousand enemies; face ten thousand enemies as a single foe.
Aikido is not an art to fight with enemies and defeat them. It is a way to lead all human beings to live in harmony with each other as though everyone were one family. The secret of aikido is to make yourself become one with the universe and to go along with its natural movements. One who has attained this secret holds the universe in him/herself and can say, 'I am the universe.'
Was not Jesus an extremist in love? - "Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, pray for them that despitefully use you."
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
Enemies publish themselves. They declare war. The friend never declares his love.
The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.
When someone asked Abraham Lincoln, after he was elected president, what he was going to do about his enemies, he replied, "I am going to destroy them. I am going to make them my friends."
As thou these ashes, little brook, wilt bear _x000D_ Into the Avon, Avon to the tide _x000D_ Of Severn, Severn to the narrow seas, _x000D_ Into main ocean they, this deed accursed _x000D_ An emblem yields to friends and enemies _x000D_ How the bold teacher's doctrine, sanctified _x000D_ By truth, shall spread, throughout the world dispersed.
You don't love in your enemies what they are, but what you would have them become by your prayers.
Emotion can be the enemy, if you give into your emotion, you lose yourself. You must be at one with your emotion, because the body always follows the mind.
A black belt is nothing more than a belt that goes around your waist. Being a black belt is a state of mind and attitude. Even though surrounded By several enemies set to attack, Fight with the thought That they are but one.
The quest for certainty in forecasting outcomes can be the enemy of progress.
The 'enemy' in golf is tension.
The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.
The loss of any army is always caused by underestimating the enemy. Therefore gather information and watch the enemy carefully.
Violent movements attract thugs and firebrands who enjoy the mayhem. Violent tactics provide a pretext for retaliation by the enemy and alienate third parties who might otherwise support the movement.
Economic libertarians and Christian evangelicals, united by their common enemy, are strange bedfellows in today's Republican party, just as the two Georges - the archconservative Wallace and the uberliberal McGovern - found themselves in the same Democratic Party in 1972.
The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.
Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.
When bitter enemies make peace, surely some bitterness remains.
Be of one mind and one faith, that you may conquer your enemies and lead long and happy lives.
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