Either push your limits or die.

Take what's useful, discard what is not.

Self-knowledge involves relationship. To know oneself is to study one self in action with another person. Relationship is a process of self evaluation and self revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself - to be is to be related.

Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you. I'll not willingly offend, nor be easily offended.

Do not run away; let go. Do not seek; for it will come when least expected.

The second-hand artist blindly following his sensei or sifu accepts his pattern. As a result, his action is and , more importantly, his thinking become mechanical. His responses become automatic, according to set patterns, making him narrow and limited.

Be happy, but never satisfied.