Instead of dedicating your life to actualize a concept of what you should be like, actualize yourself.
Recognizing that the power of will is the supreme court over all other departments of my mind, I will exercise daily when I need the urge to act for any purpose; and I will form habits designed to bring the power of my will into action at least once daily.
There’s only one basic principle of self-defense- you must apply the most effective weapon, as soon as possible, to the most vulnerable target.
A fight is not won by one punch or kick. Either learn to endure or hire a bodyguard.
Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-consciousn ess.
Remember my friend to enjoy your planning as well as your accomplishment, for life is too short for negative energy.
Genius: The capacity to see and to express what is simple, simply!
Art is never decoration, embellishment; instead, it is work of enlightenment. Art, in other words, is a technique for acquiring liberty.
True refinement seeks simplicity.
Optimism is a faith that leads to success.
I'm moving and not moving at all. I'm like the moon underneath the waves that ever go on rolling and rocking. It is not, "I am doing this," but rather, an inner realization that "this is happening through me," or "it is doing this for me." The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action.
Bring the mind to a sharp focus and make it alert so that it can immediately intuit truth, which is everywhere.
Truth comes when your mind and heart are purged of all sense of striving and you are no longer trying to become somebody; it is there when the mind is very quiet, listening timelessly to everything.
The meaning of life is that it is to be lived.
Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.
False teachers of the Way of life use flowery words.
The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.
The aim of art is to project an inner vision into the world.
I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged.
The more relaxed the muscles are, the more energy can flow through the body. Using muscular tensions to try to 'do' the punch or attempting to use brute force to knock someone over will only work to opposite effect.
How can there be methods and systems to arrive at something that is living? To that which is static, fixed, dead, there can be a way, a definite path, but not to that which is living. Do not reduce reality to a static thing and then invent methods to reach it. ...Truth has no path. Truth is living and, therefore, changing. It has no resting place, no form, no organized institution, no philosophy. When you see that, you will understand that this living thing is also what you are. You cannot express and be alive through static, put-together form, through stylized movement.
There are no limits. If it kills you, it kills you. A man must constantly exceed his level.
It is not a shame to be knocked down by other people. The important thing is to ask when you're being knocked down, 'Why am I being knocked down?' If a person can reflect in this way, then there is hope for this person.
If every man would help his neighbor, no man would be without help.
Life is better lived than conceptualized. — This writing can be less demanding should I allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I’ve come to understand that life is best to be lived — not to be conceptualized. If you have to think, you still do not understand.
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