If you make an ass out of yourself, there will always be someone to ride you |
If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done. |
If you think a thing is impossible, you'll make it impossible. |
If you want to do your duty properly, you should do just a little more than that. |
If you want to learn to swim jump into the water. On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you |
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential. |
Knowing is not enough, you must apply; willing is not enough, you must do. |
Knowledge will give you power, but character respect. |
Let an opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let an opponent smash into your flesh and you fracture his bone; let an opponent fracture your bone and you take his life! Do not be concerned with your escaping safely; lay your life before him! |
Let the spirit out - Discard all thoughts of reward, all hopes of praise and fears of blame, all awareness of one's bodily self. And, finally closing the avenues of sense perception, let the spirit out, as it will. |
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. |
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. |
Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system. |
Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them. |
Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind. |