Sublime

He was definitely not an armchair intellectual.

While not a samurai, Jigoro trained in martial arts and became well known for his meticulous recording of the jujutsu techniques he deemed most effective. He described his work as “keeping what I felt should be kept, and discarding what I felt should be discarded.”

A sense of belonging is something that one acquires through one’s own efforts—it is not something one is endowed with at birth.

There is no shame in getting knocked out. The shame comes when you throw in the motherfucking towel,

Adler says, “In fact, if we were to ask ourselves who is the strongest person in our culture, the logical answer would be, the baby. The baby rules and cannot be dominated.”

The cowards never started and the weak died along the way. That leaves us, ladies and gentlemen. Us.

As a complement to this text, I recommend the movie Shichinin no Samurai (The Seven Samurai). It contains many elements from bushido, and it’s said that George Lucas was inspired by it in creating Star