“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
“We are like blades of grass or trees of the forest, creations of the universe, of the spirit of the universe, and the spirit of the universe has neither life nor death. Vanity is the only obstacle to life.”
― 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
“Save your skin from the corrosive acids from the mouths of toxic people. Someone who just helped you to speak evil about another person can later help another person to speak evil about you.”
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“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
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