A man strikes you, make him bleed. He makes you bleed, you break his bones. He breaks your bones, kill him. Being hit is inevitable, strike back twice as hard.
Remember no man is really defeated unless he is discouraged.
Success means doing something sincerely and wholeheartedly.
Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are the weeds that strangle confidence.
To live is to express oneself freely.
As long as we separate this oneness into two we won’t achieve realization.
Put every great teacher in a room, and they’d agree about everything, but put their disciples in there and they’d argue about everything.
I think of myself as a human being.
Probably the most badass guy who ever lived on this planet!
Know the difference between a catastrophe and an inconvenience. – To realize that it’s just an inconvenience, that it is not a catastrophe, but just an unpleasantness, is part of coming into your own, part of waking up.
I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies.
The essence of fighting is the art of moving at the right time.
It’s the law of averages: put in more, come out with more.
Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-consciousn ess.
If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo.
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.
It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.
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.
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.
You just wait. I’m going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.