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“The best way to measure how much you've grown isn't by inches or the number of laps you can now run around the track, or even your grade point average-- though those things are important, to be sure. It's what you've done with your time, how you've chosen to spend your days, and whom you've touched this year. That, to me, is the greatest measure of success.”
― Wonder
― Wonder
“In Buddhism, there is no place for using effort. Just be ordinary and nothing special. Eat your food, move your bowels, pass water and when you're tired go and lie down. The ignorant will laugh at me, but the wise will understand.”
― Tao of Jeet Kune Do
― Tao of Jeet Kune Do
“It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.”
― Tao of Jeet Kune Do
― Tao of Jeet Kune Do
“The minute you become conscious that you are doing good, that's the minute you have to stop because from then on it's wrong.”
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“If you run, you are a runner. It doesn't matter how fast or how far. It doesn't matter if today is your first day or if you've been running for twenty years. There is no test to pass, no license to earn, no membership card to get. You just run.”
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