Thought for the day II

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Postby yat_chum » Mon Feb 12, 2007 9:42 pm

"Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own."
Bruce Lee
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Postby yat_chum » Wed Feb 14, 2007 1:49 am

"A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities."
William Arthur Ward
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Postby Inga » Wed Feb 14, 2007 10:07 am

"Build your will. Set a goal for yourself. Make friends with others. Then, when you carry your fire along life's path, you will have plenty of wood to light your way. Do not let your fire be extinguished. Once it is extinguished, you will have to start again."

- Master Yang, Jwing-Ming
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Postby yat_chum » Thu Feb 15, 2007 2:25 am

"A friend's eye is a good mirror."
Celtic Proverb
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Postby yat_chum » Thu Feb 15, 2007 8:45 pm

“In war you kill the general sitting at the top of the hill [ his head] and the army falls apart.... so aim to kill the general asap dont spend time with the army itself.”
-Kevin Gledhill
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Postby yat_chum » Sat Feb 17, 2007 4:14 am

"The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom."
James Allen
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Postby yat_chum » Sat Feb 17, 2007 8:29 pm

"Dance, when you're broken open.
Dance, if you've torn the bandage off.
Dance in the middle of the fighting.
Dance in your blood.
Dance, when you're perfectly free."
Sufi mystic - Jelaluddin Rumi - 13th century
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Postby yat_chum » Sun Feb 18, 2007 10:19 pm

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
Margaret Mead (1901 - 1978)
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Postby yat_chum » Mon Feb 19, 2007 7:01 pm

"If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something, I can neither give nor receive."
Dorothee Solle
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Postby yat_chum » Tue Feb 20, 2007 8:24 pm

"Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind."
Plato, The Republic
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Postby yat_chum » Thu Feb 22, 2007 2:27 am

"It is better to wear out than to rust out."
Bishop Richard Cumberland
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Postby yat_chum » Thu Feb 22, 2007 7:21 pm

"Have bridge, cross bridge; no bridge, strike" Wing Chun saying
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Postby yat_chum » Fri Feb 23, 2007 8:15 pm

"The Way of a Warrior is based on humanity, love, and sincerity; the heart of martial valor is true bravery, wisdom, love, and friendship. Emphasis on the physical aspects of warriorship is futile, for the power of the body is always limited."
Ueshiba Morihei, The Art Of Peace
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Postby yat_chum » Sat Feb 24, 2007 9:15 pm

"When you pray you are speaking to God,
meditate, still your mind,
and then you can hear God.
Only when your mind becomes still
can you get clarity."
Shri Shivabalayogi Maharaj
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Postby yat_chum » Sun Feb 25, 2007 9:50 pm

"Fist has no manners/propriety." Wing Chun saying
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Postby yat_chum » Mon Feb 26, 2007 8:47 pm

"I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends."
Abraham Lincoln
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Postby yat_chum » Tue Feb 27, 2007 7:39 pm

“Computers and technology are gettting faster and faster, but when it comes to unarmed combat, the old way is the best way.” Sifu Kan Wah Chit
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Postby yat_chum » Thu Mar 01, 2007 5:14 am

"Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not. We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them."
John Henry Cardinal Newman (1801 - 1890)
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Postby yat_chum » Thu Mar 01, 2007 7:37 pm

"If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door."
Lois McMaster Bujold, "The Warrior's Apprentice", 1986
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Postby yat_chum » Fri Mar 02, 2007 8:03 pm

"The fight is won or lost far away from any witnesses. It is won behind the scenes, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights."
Muhammad Ali
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