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I've come to understand that life is best lived, not conceptualized.
Sep 10, 2025
Life is never stagnation. It is constant movement, un-rhythmic movement, as we as constant change. Things live by moving and gain strength as they go.
Karate is a defensive art from beginning to end.
I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.
The second-hand artist blindly following his sensei or sifu accepts his pattern. As a result, his action is and , more importantly, his thinking become mechanical. His responses become automatic, according to set patterns, making him narrow and limited.
I am not teaching you anything. I just help you to explore yourself.
Not to borrow the strength of another, nor to rely on one's own strength; to cut off past and future thoughts, and not to live within the everyday mind... then the Great Way is right before your eyes.
If you want to learn to swim jump into the water. On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you.
Optimism is a faith that leads to success.
I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.
Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowled
Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.
Don't pray for an easy life, pray to be a stronger man.
Choose the positive. You have choice, you are master of your attitude, choose the positive, the constructive. Optimism is a faith that leads to success.
Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.
To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.
For it is easy to criticize and break down the spirit of others, but to know yourself takes a lifetime.
Champions have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.
Life is wide, limitless. There is no border, no frontier.
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.
Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth.
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.
Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.
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.
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.
The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.
Love is like a friendship caught on fire.
The ultimate aim of Karate lies not in victory or defeat, but in the perfection of the character of its participants.
Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
The will must be stronger than the skill.
In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail.
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision.
Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.
Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one
Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.
Water can flow, or it can crash. Be water, my friend.
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.
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water.
I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.
If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.
A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.
Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.