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The Past Is An Illusion. You Must Learn To Live In The Present And Accept Yourself For What You Are Now. What You Lack In Flexibility And Agility You Must Make Up With Knowledge And Constant Practice.

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The Past Is An

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The Past Is An Illusion. You Must Learn To Live In The Present And Accept Yourself For What You Are Now. What You Lack In Flexibility And Agility You Must Make Up With Knowledge And Constant Practice.

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Circumstances Hell! I Make Circumstances!

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Thought Provoking

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Time Means A Lot To Me Because, You See, I, Too, Am Also A Learner And Am Often Lost In The Joy Of Forever Developing And Simplifying. If You Love Life, Don't Waste Time, For Time Is What Life Is Made Up Of.

Be A Calm Beholder Of What Is Happening Around You.

Ever Since I Was A Child I Have Had This Instinctive Urge For Expansion And Growth. To Me, The Function And Duty Of A Quality Human Being Is The Sincere And Honest Development Of One's Potential.

The Ideal Is Unnatural Naturalness, Or Natural Unnaturalness. I Mean It Is A Combination Of Both. I Mean Here Is Natural Instinct And Here Is Control. You Are To Combine The Two In Harmony. Not If You Have One To The Extreme, You'll Be Very Unscientific. If You Have Another To The Extreme, You Become, All Of A Sudden, A Mechanical Man No Longer A Human Being. It Is A Successful Combination Of Both. That Way It Is A Process Of Continuing Growth.

My Strength Comes From My Abdomen. It's The Center Of Gravity And The Source Of Real Power.

True Observation Begins When Devoid Of Set Patterns; Freedom Of Expression Occurs When One Is Beyond System.

Freedom Of Expression

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