The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful - my personal life suffers.
If you can not win, make the enemy pay a steep price for victory
Always enter like a kitten and leave like a lion. But NEVER enter like a lion and leave like a kitten. Always be humble.
The best way to get a move to work is to make it so uncomfortable that the opponent gives it to you to stop the pain.
There is no reward without sacrifice.
Punch a black belt in the face, he becomes a brown belt. Punch him again, purple.
Never quit, you have to resist to the utmost. 'Til you drop, like a Samurai
There is nothing in the world common to man, that man cannot do.
It is in that moment, when you really lay down your cards and see the relationship for what it was, that you'll find the freedom to kick it in the ass and let it go.
Come back to square one, just the minimum bare bones. Relaxing with the present moment, relaxing with hopelessness, relaxing with death, not resisting the fact that things end, that things pass, that things have no lasting substance, that everything is changing all the time-that is the basic message.
Good marriages are built upon a combination of emotional love and a common commitment to a core of beliefs about what is important in life and what we wish to do with our lives. Speaking each other's primary love language creates the emotional climate where these beliefs can be fleshed out in daily life.