Everything too fast is not good but everything too slow is also not good. You need balance. That's why I like martial arts: it always tells you how to control your body, your mind, your heart. Balance. Balance can keep the world's peace. I think that's a very good thing.
Interpretation
Finding a middle ground between extremes is essential for harmony.
This quote emphasizes the importance of balance in life, suggesting that both excessive haste and extreme slowness can lead to negative outcomes. Jet Li highlights how martial arts teach individuals to master their physical and mental states, thus promoting harmony within oneself and contributing to broader peace in the world.
In practice
During a motivational speech about discipline and self-control.
Human kind is made up of two sexes, women and men. Is it possible that a mass is improved by the improvement of only one part and the other part is ignored? Is it possible that if half of a mass is tied to earth with chains and the other half can soar into skies?
I'm for democracy, but imposing democracy is an oxymoron. People have to choose democracy, and it has to come up from below.
He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.
We don't have the time to completely be ourselves. We only have the room to be happy.
There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.
Philosophers play with the word, like a child with a doll.... It does not mean that everything in life is relative.
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