there is nothing outside of yourself that can ever enable you to get better, stronger, richer, quicker, or smarter. Everything is within.… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
In battle, if you you make your opponent flinch, you have already won. — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
You must understand that there is more than one path to the top of the mountain — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
When you have attained the way of strategy there will be nothing that you cannot understand. You will see the way in… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
By knowing things that exist, you can know that which does not exist. — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
The halberd is inferior to the spear on the battlefield. With the spear you can take the initiative, the halberd is defensive. — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
Unless you really understand others, you can hardly attain your own self-understanding. — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
It is difficult to understand the universe if you only study one planet — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
there is nothing outside of yourself that can ever enable you to get better, stronger, richer, quicker, or smarter. Everything is within. Everything exists.… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
You win battles by knowing the enemy's timing, and using a timing which the enemy does not expect. — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
“The heart of Stepping on the Sword, something used principally in the martial arts, is that even with bows and firearms, you must act… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
“When you and your opponent are fighting and nothing is going right, nor is there progress, be of a mind to throw off your… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
No man is invincible, and therefore no man can fully understand that which would make him invincible — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
If there is a Way involving the spirit of not being defeated, to help oneself and gain honour, it is the Way of Strategy. — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death. — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
People in this world look at things mistakenly, and think that what they do not understand must be the void. This is not the… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image