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"when one is not expressing himself, he is not free. thus, he begins to struggle and the struggle breeds methodical routine. Soon, he is doing his methodical routine as response rather than responding to what is."
"The past is an illusion. You must learn to live in the present and accept yourself for what you are now. What you lack in flexibility and agility you must make up with knowledge and constant practice."
"A powerful athlete is not a strong athlete, but one who can exert his strength quickly. Since power equals force times speed, if the athlete learns to make faster movements he increases his power, even though the contractile pulling strength of his muscles remains unchanged. Thus, a smaller man who can swing faster may hit as hard or as far as the heavier man who swings slowly."
"The poorer we are inwardly, the more we try to enrich ourselves outwardly."
"Success means doing something sincerely and wholeheartedly."
"To understand your fear is the beginning of really seeing."
"Pessimism blunts the tools you need to succeed."
"The meaning of life is that it is to be lived."
"The stillness in stillness is not the real stillness; only when there is stillness in movement does the universal rhythm manifest."
"Real living is living for others."
"Running water never grows stale."
"Concepts vs. self-actualization. - Instead of dedicating your life to actualize a concept of what you should be like, ACTUALIZE YOURSELF. The process of maturing does not mean to become a captive of conceptualization. It is to come to the realization of what lies in our innermost selves."
"To me defeat in anything is merely temporary. Defeat simply tells me that something is wrong in my doing; it is a path leading to success and truth."
"Be a calm beholder of what is happening around you."
"Water can flow, or it can crash. Be water, my friend."
"When you fight, if it is a real fight, use every tool that you have, use your whole body. Use your fists, your legs, your fingers, your head if you have to, and hit them in every vulnerable spot, the balls, the eyes etc. to win."
"People try to hold onto the sameness. This holding onto prevents growth."
"The more aware you become, the more you shed from day to day what you have learned so that your mind is always fresh and uncontaminated by previous conditioning."
"Fear comes from uncertainty; we can eliminate the fear within us when we know ourselves better. As the great Sun Tzu said: “When you know yourself and your opponent, you will win every time. When you know yourself but not your opponent, you will win one and lose one. However, when you do not know yourself or your opponent, you will be imperiled every time."
"You must have complete determination. The worst opponent you can come across is one whose aim has become an obsession."