Learn the principle, abide by the principle, and dissolve the principle. In short, enter a mold without being caged in it. Obey the principle without being bound by it. Learn, master, and achieve.
The idea is that flowing water never goes stale, so just keep on flowing.
You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.
The More we value things, the less we value ourselves
If I tell you I'm good, probably you will say I'm boasting. But if I tell you I'm not good, you'll know I'm lying.
Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.
I've come to understand that life is best lived, not conceptualized.
Optimism is a faith that leads to success.
As you think, so shall you become.
All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.
Its like a finger pointing away to the moon. Dont concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory.
In Buddhism, there is no place for using effort. Just be ordinary and nothing special. Eat your food, move your bowels, pass water and when you're tired go and lie down. The ignorant will laugh at me, but the wise will understand.
The doubters said, "Man can not fly," The doers said, "Maybe, but we'll try," And finally soared In the morning glow While non-believers Watched from below.
A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.
Those who are unaware they are walking in darkness will never seek the light.
For it is easy to criticize and break down the spirit of others, but to know yourself takes a lifetime.
If there is a God, he is within. You don't ask God to give you things, you depend on God for your inner theme.
Don't fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged.
If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.
If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.
If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.
The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.
Simplicity is the key to brilliance.
A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.
Be happy, but never satisfied.
When one has reached maturity in the art, one will have a formless form. It is like ice dissolving in water. When one has no form, one can be all forms; when one has no style, he can fit in with any style.
Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.
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.
Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.
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.
Absorb what is useful, Discard what is not, Add what is uniquely your own.
I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.