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.

Running water never grows stale.

Its like a finger pointing away to the moon. Dont concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory.

People fear what they do not understand.

The principle of martial arts is not a thing that can be learned, like a science, by fact-finding and instruction in facts. It has to grow spontaneously, like a flower, in a mind free from emotions and desires.

To reach me, you must move to me. Your attack offers me an opportunity to intercept you.

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