One Great Cause Of Failure Is Lack

When One Has Reached Maturity In This Art, One Will Have The Formless Form. It Is Like The Dissolving Or Thawing [of] Ice Into Water That Can Shape Itself To Any Structure. When One Has No Form, One Can Be All Forms; When One Has No Style, One Can Fit In With Any Style.

The Core Of Understanding Lies In The Individual Mind, And Until That Is Touched Everything Is Uncertain And Superficial. Truth Cannot Be Perceived Until We Come To Fully Understand Our Potential And Ourselves. After All, Knowledge In The Martial Arts Ultimately Means Self-knowledge.

Love Is Like A Friendship Caught On Fire. In The Beginning A Flame, Very Pretty, Often Hot And Fierce, But Still Only Light And Flickering. As Love Grows Older, Our Hearts Mature And Our Love Becomes As Coals, Deep-burning And Unquenchable.

To Contemplate A Thing Implies Maintaining Oneself Outside It, Resolved To Keep A Distance Between It And Ourselves.

The Three Most Difficult Things In Life Are: 1. To Keep A Secret. 2. To Forget An Injury. 3. To Make Good Use Of Leisure.