Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water.
Remember, success is a journey not a destination. Have faith in your ability. You will do just fine.
Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.
A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.
The past is no more; the future not yet. Nothing exists except the here and now. Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at our hands.
If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.
Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.
Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own.
Sorrows are our best educator. A man can see further through a tear than a telescope.
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
Every man today is the result of his thoughts yesterday.
Fluidity is the way to an empty mind. You must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying.
Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.
There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
Your state of mind is everything.
To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.
Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.
The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.
When you say that something is impossible, you have made it impossible.
Obey the principles without being bound by them.
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.
A fight is not won by one punch or kick. Either learn to endure or hire a bodyguard.
To become a champion requires a good mental attitude toward preparation. You have to accept the most tedious task with pleasure.
Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.
What you habitually think largely determines what you will ultimately become.
Never waste energy on worries or negative thoughts, all problems are brought into existence -drop them.
True refinement seeks simplicity.
The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.
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.
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.
Concentration is the root of all the higher abilities in man.
Its not what happens that counts... It's how you react.
When you feel pain, you know that you are still alive.
The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.
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.
If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.
For it is easy to criticize and break down the spirit of others, but to know yourself takes a lifetime.
In order to realize our true self we must be willing to live without being dependent upon the opinion of others.
Everyone wants to learn how to win, but no one wants to learn how to accept defeat.
Only the self-sufficient stand alone - most people follow the crowd and imitate.
Know the difference between a catastrophe and an inconvenience.
People fear what they do not understand.
We do not become. We simply are.
Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.
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.
Simplicity is the key to brilliance.
Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.
