Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
Karate is a defensive art from beginning to end.
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.
Things live by moving and gain strength as they go.
I've come to understand that life is best lived, not conceptualized.
Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth.
Let nature take its course and your tools will strike at the right moment.
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.
I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged.
Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.
The will must be stronger than the skill.
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.
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.
Where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.
Don't pray for an easy life, pray to be a stronger man.
There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.
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.
Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own.
For it is easy to criticize and break down the spirit of others, but to know yourself takes a lifetime.
Life is wide, limitless. There is no border, no frontier.
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.
If you want to learn to swim jump into the water. On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you.
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