Hong kong author quotes Quotes

“Fear comes from uncertainty; we can eliminate the fear within us when we know ourselves better.”

“The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.”

“I am not afraid of a person who knows 10000 kicks. But I am afraid of a person who knows one kick but practices it for 10000 times.”

“Time means a lot to me because, you see, I, too, am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing and simplifying. If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.”

“Use karate, judo, aikido, or any style to build your counter-offensive. It will be interesting!”

“True thusness is the substance of thought, and thought is the function of true thusness. There is no thought except that of true thusness. Thusness does not move, but its motion and function are inexhaustible.”

“The martial arts are ultimately self-knowledge. A punch or a kick is not to knock the hell out of the guy in front, but to knock the hell out of your ego, your fear, or your hang-ups.”

“What we are after is the root and not the branches. The root is the real knowledge; the branches are surface knowledge. Real knowledge breeds 'body feel' and personal expression; surface knowledge breeds mechanical conditioning and imposing limitation and squelches creativity.”

“If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo.”

“Learning is definitely not mere imitation, nor is it the ability to accumulate and regurgitate fixed knowledge. Learning is a constant process of discovery - a process without end.”

“To spend time is to pass it in a specified manner. To waste time is to expend it thoughtlessly or carelessly. We all have time to either spend or waste and it is our decision what to do with it. But once passed, it is gone forever.”

“In building a statue, a sculptor doesn't keep adding clay to his subject. Actually, he keeps chiseling away at the nonessentials until the truth of his creation is revealed without obstruction.”

“Either you understand or you don't, and that is that.”

“I refer to my hands, feet and body as the tools of the trade. The hands and feet must be sharpened and improved daily to be efficient.”

“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.”

“Having totality means being capable of following "what is," because "what is" is constantly moving and constantly changing. If one is anchored to a particular view, one will not be able to follow the swift movement of "what is.”

“Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear. Make a hairbreadth difference and heaven and earth are set apart.”

“Satori - in the awakening from a dream. Awakening and self-realization and seeing into one's own being - these are synonymous.”

“Have no rigid system in you, and you'll be flexible to change with the ever changing.”

“I have the absolute confidence not to be number two, but then I have enough sense to realize that there can be no number one.”

“Remember my friend to enjoy your planning as well as your accomplishment, for life is too short for negative energy.”

“A teacher is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for himself.”

“Pain is weakness leaving your body.”

“Its not what happens that counts...It's how you react.”

“Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.”

“All types of knowledge ultimately lead to self-knowledge. So, therefore, these people are asking me to teach them, not so much how to defend themselves or how to do somebody in. Rather, they want to learn to express themselves through some movement, be it anger, be it determination or whatever. So, in other words, they're paying me to show them, in combative form, the art of expressing the human body.”

“Using no way as a way, having no limitation as limitation.”

“To live is to express, and to express you have to create. Creation is never merely repetition. To live is to express oneself freely in creation.”

“Success means doing something sincerely and wholeheartedly.”

“The highest art is no art. The best form is no form.”

“Learning is never cumulative, it is a movement of knowing which has no beginning and no end.”

“Boards don't hit back.”

“All knowledge, is ultimately, self knowledge.”

“Know the difference between a catastrophe and an inconvenience.”

“The idea is that flowing water never goes stale, so just keep on flowing.”

“Man, he is constantly growing and when he is bound by a set pattern of ideas or way of doing things, that's when he stops growing”

“Belts are only good for holding up your pants”

“Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.”

“Concepts vs. self-actualization. - Instead of dedicating your life to actualize a concept of what you should be like, ACTUALIZE YOURSELF. The process of maturing does not mean to become a captive of conceptualization. It is to come to the realization of what lies in our innermost selves.”

“It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.”

“You need emotional content.”

“Not being tense but ready. Not thinking but not dreaming. Not being set but flexible. Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement. It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come.”

“The knowledge and skills you have achieved are meant to be forgotten so you can float comfortably in emptiness, without obstruction.”

“We should devote ourselves to being self-sufficient and must not depend upon the external ratings by others for our happiness.”

“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.”

“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.”

“No matter what, you must let your innerlight guide you out of the darkness.”

“I personally do not believe in the word style. Why? Because, unless there are human beings with three arms and four legs, unless we have another group of human beings that are structually different from us, there can be no different style of fighting.”

“If you want to learn to swim you have to throw yourself in the water.”

“Real living is living for others.”