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“I can defeat you physically with or without a reason. But I can only defeat your mind with a reason. —JIM LAU”
― Zen in the Martial Arts
― Zen in the Martial Arts
“For the uncontrolled there is no wisdom, nor for the uncontrolled is there the power of concentration; and for him without concentration there is no peace. And for the unpeaceful, how can there be happiness? —BHAGAVAD GITA”
― Zen in the Martial Arts
― Zen in the Martial Arts
“The mind is like a fertile garden,” Bruce said. “It will grow anything you wish to plant—beautiful flowers or weeds. And so it is with successful, healthy thoughts or with negative ones that will, like weeds, strangle and crowd the others. Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are the weeds that strangle confidence.”
― Zen in the Martial Arts
― Zen in the Martial Arts
“To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the highest skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the highest skill.”
― Zen in the Martial Arts
― Zen in the Martial Arts
“I don't damsel well. Distress, I can do. Damseling? Not so much.”
― Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports
― Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports
Daniel Valik’s 2025 Year in Books
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