1. “For it is easy to criticize and break down the spirit of others, but to know yourself takes a lifetime.”
2. “As you think, so shall you become.”
3. “If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.”
4. “To spend time is to pass it in a specified manner. To waste time is to expend it thoughtlessly or carelessly. We all have time to either spend or waste and it is our decision what to do with it. But once passed, it is gone forever.”
5. “Self-knowledge involves relationship. To know oneself is to study one self in action with another person. Relationship is a process of self evaluation and self revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself - to be is to be related.”
6. “Be self aware, rather than a repetitious robot.”
7. “Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.”
8. “Now I see that I will never find the light
Unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel,
Consuming myself.”
9.“Time means a lot to me because you see I am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing.”
10 “Many people dedicate their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like, rather than actualizing themselves.
This difference between self-actualization and self-image actualization is very important. Most people live only for their image.”
11.“The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.”
12. “Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.”
13. “Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.”
14. “Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.”
15. “Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.”
16. “The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.”
17. “The More we value things, the less we value ourselves”
18. “Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.”
19. “The stillness in stillness is not the real stillness; only when there is stillness in movement does the universal rhythm manifest.”
20. “Boards don't hit back.”
21. “Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.”
22. “Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later the man who wins, is the man who thinks he can.”
23. “Everything you do, if not in a relaxed state will be done at a lesser level than you are proficient. Thus the tensed expert marksman will aim at a level less than his/her student.”
24. “Those who are unaware they are walking in darkness will never seek the light.”
25. “Real living is living for others.”
26. “If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo. ”
27. “All knowledge leads to self-knowledge.”
28. “The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.”
29. “Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.”
30. “To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.”
31. “Obey the principles without being bound by them.”
32. “Its like a finger pointing away to the moon. Don't concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory.”
33. “The idea is that flowing water never goes stale, so just keep on flowing.”
34. “The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”
35. “Preparation for tomorrow is hard work today.”
36. “You cannot force the Now. — But can you neither condemn nor justify and yet be extraordinarily alive as you walk on? You can never invite the wind, but you must leave the window open.”
37. “Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo.”
38. “If you think a thing is impossible,you'll only make it impossible.”
39. “The world is full of people who are determined to be somebody or to give trouble. They want to get ahead, to stand out. Such ambition has no use for a gung fu man, who rejects all forms of self-assertiveness and competition.”
40. “Using no way as a way, having no limitation as limitation.”
41.“Linda(his wife) and I aren't one and one. We are two halves that make a whole -- two halves fitted together are more efficient than either half would ever be alone!”
42. “The possession of anything begins in the mind.”
43. “To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.”
44. “Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.”
45.“The word "superstar" is an illusion.”
46. “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.”
47. “It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.”
48. “All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.”
49. “Knowledge earns you power, character earns you respect.”
50. “As long as I can remember I feel I have had this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. My brain becomes magnetized with this dominating force which I hold in my hand.”
51.“If I tell you I'm good, probably you will say I'm boasting. But if I tell you I'm not good, you'll know I'm lying.”
52. “But neither can you condemn nor justify and yet be extraordinarily alive as you walk on.
You can never invite the wind but you must leave the window open.”
53. “The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action.”
54. “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.”
55. “water is fearless,you put water into a cup,it becomes the cup ,you put water into a teapot it becomes the teapot,water can flow drip ,creap,or crash!”
56. “Because one does not want to be disturbed, to be made uncertain, he establishes a pattern of conduct, of thought, a pattern of relationship to man etc. Then he becomes a slave to the patter and takes the pattern to be the real thing.”
57. “Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.”
58. “Don't think. FEEL. It's like a finger pointing at the moon. Do not concentrate on the finger, or you will miss all of the heavenly glory.”
59. “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.”
60.“Set patterns, incapable of adaptability, of pliability, only offer a better cage. Truth is outside of all patterns.”
61. “If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow -- you are not understanding yourself.”
62. “Be like water making its way through crack.
Do not be assertive but adjust to the object and you shall find a way round it or through it.
If nothing within you stays rigid outward thigs will disclose themselves.
Moving be like water.
Still be like a mirror.
Respond like an echo.”
63. “Using no way as way. Having no limitation as your only limitation.”
64. “In order to control myself I must first accept myself by going with and not against my nature.”
65. “The man who is really serious, with the urge to find out what truth is, has no style at all. He lives only in what is.”
66. “Absorb what is useful, discard what is useless and add what is specifically your own.”
67. “if you want to be immortal live a life worth remembering.”
68. “In the middle of chaos lies opportunity--Bruce Lee.”
69. “Remember no man is really defeated unless he is discouraged.”
70. “Do not pray for an easy life. Pray for a difficult on with the strength to endure it.”
71. “I am not afraid of an opponent who practiced ten thousand kicks once. What I am afraid of is an opponent who practiced one kick, ten thousand times.”
72. “Practice makes perfect. After a long time of practicing, our work will become natural, skill full, swift, and steady.”
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