Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.
The doubters said, “Man can not fly,” The doers said, “Maybe, but we’ll try,” And finally soared In the morning glow While non-believers Watched from below.
The More we value things, the less we value ourselves
Don’t get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.
Bring the mind into sharp focus and make it alert so that it can immediately intuit truth, which is everywhere. The mind must be emancipated from old habits, prejudices, restrictive thought processes and even ordinary thought itself.
Set patterns, incapable of adaptability, of pliability, only offer a better cage. Truth is outside of all patterns.
All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.
I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.
Don’t fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.
I am not afraid of a person who knows 10000 kicks. But I am afraid of a person who knows one kick but practices it for 10000 times.
Effort within the mind further limits the mind, because effort implies struggle towards a goal and when you have a goal, a purpose, an end in view, you have placed a limit on the mind.
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. Be water, my friend.
Remember no man is really defeated unless he is discouraged.
The essential quality of living life lies simply in the living.
Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one
Living exists when life lives through us … life is a living now!
Do not pray for an easy life. Pray for a difficult on with the strength to endure it.
It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.
A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.
Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are the weeds that strange confidence.
If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow — you are not understanding yourself.
Relationship is understanding. It is a process of self-revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself — to be is to be related.
Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.
Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.
Emotion can be the enemy, if you give into your emotion, you lose yourself. You must be at one with your emotions, because the body always follows the mind.
Satori – in the awakening from a dream. Awakening and self-realization and seeing into one’s own being – these are synonymous.
In Buddhism, there is no place for using effort. Just be ordinary and nothing special. Eat your food, move your bowels, pass water and when you’re tired go and lie down. The ignorant will laugh at me, but the wise will understand.
If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.
Not being tense but ready.Not thinking but not dreaming.Not being set but flexible.Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement.It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come.
Learn the principles, abide by the principles, and then dissolve the principles.
Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-conciousness. Freedom discovers man the moment he loses concern over what impression he is making or about to make.
You just wait. I’m going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.
Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.
The best fighter is not a Boxer, Karate or Judo man. The best fighter is someone who can adapt on any style. He kicks too good for a Boxer, throws too good for a Karate man, and punches too good for a Judo man.
If you don’t want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.
Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successfull personality and duplicate it.
Always be yourself and have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and try to duplicate it.
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame very pretty often hot and fierce but still only light and flickering. As love grows older our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals deep-burning and unquenchable.
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.
I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.
Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.
Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.