Inspirational Quotes
~Bruce Lee
“Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.
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.”
~Bruce Lee
“The idea is that flowing water never goes stale, so just keep on flowing.”
~Bruce Lee
“What is true stillness? Stillness in movement”
~Bruce Lee
"The beginning point is Wu Ji. The posture of which is facing to the proper direction, hanging down both hands, and keeping a 90 degree angle between the two feet. This means going along with the natural principle. Before training, there is no thought or intention, no figure or image, no self or others, only Qi exists in the chaos of the body. The state is called Wu Ji in Xing Yi. "
~Sun Lu Tang, Xing Yi Quan Xue: The Study of Form-Mind Boxing
"Qi spreads without breathing as a result of the open and closing, movement and stillness, in this martial art. This is the root of this Qi and how it is created. The subtleties of letting go and expanding, receiving and contracting, are from this Qi going out. Opening makes expanding and moving. Closing makes receiving, contracting, and stillness. Opening makes yang. Closing makes yin. Letting go, expanding, and movement makes yang. Receiving, contracting and stillness makes yin. Opening and closing are the shapes of the one Qi cycling through yin and yang. That is Taiji - the one Qi."
~Sun Lu Tang, Study of Taiji Boxing
“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
~Albert Einstein
“A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.”
~Albert Einstein
“Out of clutter, find simplicity.”
~Albert Einstein
"Everywhere I go, I still have time to meditate. People think meditating is sitting there, nobody bothering you, but you can even talk and still meditate."
~Jet Li
"Love is more powerful than kicking ass."
~Jet Li
"You can use martial arts to tell a different story. Ang Lee used martial arts in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" to talk about love."
~Jet Li
“The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It is a very mean and nasty place It will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me or nobody is going to hit as hard as life. But it ain’t about how hard you hit, it is about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward, how much can you take and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done!”
~Rocky Balboa in Rocky VI
“Do not look upon this world with fear and loathing. Bravely face whatever the gods offer.”
- Morihei Ueshiba “The Art of Peace”
“As long as one has three square feet of space, one can take a trip to paradise and stay there to enjoy life for thirty minutes without spending a single cent.”
~Master T.T. Liang ”Tai Chi Chuan for Health and Self Defense”
“To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the highest skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the highest skill.”
~Sun Tsu
"In Simplicity exist Complexity, but within complexity find simplicity."
~Liu Yi Shi