“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Prefer to be defeated in the presence of the wise than to excel among fools.”
— Dogen Zenji

“Not to borrow the strength of another, nor to rely on one’s own strength; to cut off past and future thoughts, and not to live within the everyday mind…then the Great Way is right before one’s eyes”.”
— Bankei

“Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise; seek what they sought.”
― Matsuo Bashō

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