Suzie Key Tima

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who had practiced one kick 10,000 times.

I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.

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.

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.

Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.

Don’t fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail.

Be happy, but never satisfied.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.

If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

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.

It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.

Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.

Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.

For it is easy to criticize and break down the spirit of others, but to know yourself takes a lifetime.