"It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential."
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"Every man today is the result of his thoughts yesterday."
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"Fluidity is the way to an empty mind. You must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying."
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"He who wants to succeed should learn how to fight, to strive and to suffer. You can acquire a lot in life, if you are prepared to give up a lot to get it."
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"One rule is to not use complicated techniques unless they are necessary to achieve your goal. First, use simple movements, and if they don't work, then introduce the more complex ones."
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"Never waste energy on worries or negative thoughts, all problems are brought into existence -drop them."
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"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."
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"There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them."
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"Your state of mind is everything."
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"Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality."
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"When you say that something is impossible, you have made it impossible."
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"To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities."
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"The truth is outside of all fixed patterns."
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"In order to realize our true self we must be willing to live without being dependent upon the opinion of others."
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"For it is easy to criticize and break down the spirit of others, but to know yourself takes a lifetime."
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"There is no such thing as maturity. There is instead an ever-evolving process of maturing. Because when there is a maturity, there is a conclusion and a cessation. That’s the end. That’s when the coffin is closed. You might be deteriorating physically in the long process of aging, but your personal process of daily discovery is ongoing. You continue to learn more and more about yourself every day."
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"A fight is not won by one punch or kick. Either learn to endure or hire a bodyguard."
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"Anxiety is the gap between the NOW and the THEN. So if you are in the NOW, you can't be anxious, because your excitement flows immediately into ongoing spontaneous activity."
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"Obey the principles without being bound by them."
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"When you feel pain, you know that you are still alive."
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