"We generally change ourselves for one of two
reasons: inspiration or desperation."
- Unknown
"The kingdom of heaven lies within."
-Some book of the bible.
"People are like stained glass windows: they sparkle
and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true
beauty is revealed only if there is a light within."
- Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
"Life is humour, dying is the awakening of true
humour."
-Matthew Mulrine.
(It's probably not meant the way you are going
to interpret it.)
"No man, for any considerable period, can wear
one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting
bewildered as to which may be the true."
- Nathaniel Hawthorne, _The_Scarlet_Letter_
also in the book Primal Fear
"The most interesting part of life is to find
true knowledge and be able to put it to some practical use."
-Matthew Mulrine
"Fortune favours the brave."
-Unknown
"The willow knows what the storm does not: that
the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it."
- Anonymous
"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be
conscious of none."
- Thomas Carlyle
"Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us
or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle."
- James Russell Lowell, _Fireside_Travels_
"True happiness consists not in the multitude
of friends, but in the worth and choice."
- Ben Johnson
Never use the same strategy twice. Assess each
situation on it's own without being baised by past victories."
-Sun Tzu, _The_Art_of_War_
"Experience is not what happens to a man; it is
what a man does with what happens to him."
- Aldous Huxley
"It is better to fail in a cause that will ultimately
succeed than to succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail."
- Peter Marshall
"The greatest good resembles the water."
-Tao Te Ching
"You must never lose sight of who and what you
are, and what a threat you can be, by your very existence."
-The satanic rules
(Sorry, I just felt it was so amusing).
"Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting
even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are."
- Malcolm Forbes
"It all depends on how you look at things--your
perspective."
-Jet Li
"This above all: To thine own self be true, And
it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any
man.."
-William Shakespeare (Hamlet 1:3)
"Given a place between two fires, a moth will
filter from one to the other and back again, in constant agony of slightly
singed wings."
-The Forests edge
"The less effort, the faster and more powerful
you will be."
- BRUCE LEE
"To know and act are one and the same."
- SAMURAI MAXIM
"In order to achieve victory you must place yourself
in your opponent's skin. If you don't understand yourself, you will lose
one hundred percent of the time. If you understand yourself, you will win
fifty percent of time. If you understand yourself and your opponent, you
will win one hundred percent of the time."
- TSUTOMU OSHIMA
"Technical knowledge is not enough. One must transcend
techniques so that the art becomes an artless art, growing out of the unconscious."
- DAISETSU SUZUKI
"When you and your opponent are one. There is
a coexisting relationship between you. You coexist with your opponent and
become his complement, absorbing his attack and using force to overcome
him."
- BRUCE LEE
"Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind
be free: Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the
ultimate."
- CHUANG-TZU
"Softness triumphs over hardness, feebleness over
strength over that which is immoveable. This is the principle of controlling
things by going along with them, of mastery through adaptation."
- LAO-TZU
"Control your emotion or it will control you."
- CHINESE ADAGE
"The angry man will defeat himself in battle as
well as in life."
- SAMURAI MAXIM
"I can defeat you physically with or without a
reason. But I can only defeat your mind with a reason."
- JIM LAU
"A man who has attained mastery of an art reveals
it his every action."
- SAMURAI MAXIM
"Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is
Enlightenment."
- LAO-TZU
"When you seek it, you cannot find it."
- ZEN RIDDLE
"For the uncontrolled there is no wisdom, nor
for the uncontrolled is there the power of concentration; and for him without
concentration there is no peace. And for the unpeaceful, how can there
be happiness?"
- BHAGAVAD GITA
"Patience the essential quality of a man."
- KWAI-KOO-TSU
"Power of mind is infinite while brawn is limited."
- KOICHI TOHEI
"Far away there in the sunshine are my highest
aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty,
believe in them, and try to follow where they lead."
- Louisa May Alcott
"He who lives in the light by denying the dark
knows neither the beauty of the light, nor the splendor of the dark."
-The Forest Edge
"We can have more than we've got because we can
become more than we are."
-Unknown.
"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with
what you can do."
- John Wooden
"The man who follows the crowd will usually get
no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find
himself in places no one has ever been."
- Alan Ashley-Pitt
"Accept failure as a normal part of living. View
it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons
and move on."
- Tom Greening and Dick Hobson
"If you listen to your fears, you will die never
knowing what a great person you might have been."
- Robert H. Schuller
"The world of reality has its limits; the world
of imagination is boundless."
- Jean Jacques Rousseau
"The greatest virtue of heaven and earth is to
live."
- Chinese Proverb
"I walk to the horizon and there I find another,
it all seems so surprising, but then I find that I know".
- Lyrics from Anywhere Is, by Enya
"Be less curious about people and more curious
about ideas."
- Marie Curie
"New opinions are always suspected, and usually
opposed, without any other
reason but because they are not already common."
- John Locke
"When an old man is able to defeat many attackers,
how could it be due to his strength?"
-Wang Chung-yueh
"The Way is limitless, So nature is limiless,
So the world is limitless, And so I am limitless."
- Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
"The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than
my talent for absorbing positive knowledge."
- Albert Einstein
"The wise man doesn't give the right answers,
he poses the right questions."
- Claude Levi-Strauss
"Always look at what you have left. Never look
at what you have lost."
- Robert H. Schuller
"Tolerance is giving to every other human being
every right that you claim for yourself."
- Robert Ingersoll
"The man who makes no mistakes does not usually
make anything."
- William Connor Magee
"Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or
acts to improve the lot of others, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope,
and these ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls
of oppression and resistance."
- Robert F. Kennedy
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence
then, is not an act, but a habit."
- Aristotle.
"The Universe begins to look more like a great
thought than a great machine. Mind no longer appears as an accidental intruder
into the world of matter; we are beginning to suspect that we ought rather
hail it as the creator and governor of the world of matter."
- Sir James Jeans
"A human being is part of the whole, called by
us 'Universe', a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself,
his thoughts and feelings as something seperated from the rest, a kind
of optical delusion of his consciousness. The delusion is a kind of prison
for us, restricting us to
our personal desires, and to affection for a
few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this
prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures,
and the whole of nature in its beauty."
- Albert Einstein
"The longer the Journey, the harder the Path,
The stronger the Warrior!"
- Unknown
"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with
what you can do."
- John Wooden
"Until you make peace with who you are, you'll
never be content with what you
have."
- Doris Mortman
"Charm: the quality in others that makes us more
satisfied with ourselves."
- Henri-Frederic Amiel
"A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition."
- William Arthur Ward
"Do not say: 'I follow the one true path of the
spirit' but rather 'I found
the spirit walking on my path' for the
spirit walks on all paths.
- Khalil Gibran
"When the wind blows through the trees, all branches
do not sway the same."
- William Lewitt
"You can't depend on your judgment when your imagination
is out of focus."
- Mark Twain
"Your vision will become clear only when you look
into your heart ... Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside awakens."
- Carl Gustav Jung
"Heaven's highway somtimes takes you through hell."
- Unknown
"Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If
a man really wants to make a million dollars, the best way would be to
start his own religion."
- Writer Ron Hubbard in 1949 who later
founded the Church of Scientology
"The worst moment for the atheist is when he is
really thankful and has nobody to thank."
- Dante Rossetti
"God is playing a comic to an audience that's
afraid to laugh."
- Voltaire
"Man is certainly stark mad. He cannot even make
a worm, and yet he will be making gods by the dozens."
- Montaigne
"I do not believe in a God of theology who rewards
good and punishes evil."
- Albert Einstein
"Preach the Gospel at all times, and if necessary,
use words."
- St. Francis of Assisi
"Never in the world does hatred cease by hatred;
hatred ceases by love."
- Buddha
"Let us live most happily, free from hatred in
the midst of the hateful; Let us remain free from hatred in the midst of
people who hate."
- Buddha
"Do not look at the faults of what others have
done or not done; observe what you yourself have done or not done."
- Buddha
"I know God won't give me more than I can handle.
I just wish He didn't trust me so much."
- Mother Teresa
"If you bring out what is within you, what you
bring out will save you; if you do not bring out what is within you, what
you do not bring out will destroy you."
- Jesus Christ - Gnostic Gospels
"The worst prison is a closed heart."
- Pope John Paul
"The church says that the Earth is flat, but I
have seen the shadow on the moon and I have more faith in the shadow than
in the church."
- Ferdinand Magellan
"A clarification of Christianity: Thou shalt not
kill, except in the name of God, Jesus Christ, or the Holy Ghost."
- Xavier Cross
"The reason I know I am God is because one day
as I was praying, I realized I was talking to part of myself."
- Nicholas Patterson
"A great many people think they are thinking when
they are merely rearranging their prejudices."
- William James
"Don't take life too serious. You'll never escape
it alive anyway."
- Elbert Hubbard
"Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness."
- Chinese Proverb
"Man will occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on."
- Churchill
"He who has the courage to laugh is almost as
much a master of the world as he who is ready to die."
- Giacomo Leopardi
"Imagination is the one weapon in the war against
reality."
- Jules de Gaultier
"Man had always assumed that he was more intelligent
than dolphins because he had achieved so much... the wheel, New York, wars,
and so on, whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the
water having a good time. But conversely the dolphins believed themselves
to be more intelligent than man for precisely the same reasons."
- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide
to the Galaxy
"We don't live in the world of reality, we live
in the world of how we perceive reality."
- Bryan Singer
"It often takes more courage to change ones opinion
than to keep it."
- Willy Brandt
"Even on the road to hell, flowers can make you
smile."
- Deng Ming-Dao
"You can build a throne with bayonets, but you
can't sit on it for long."
- Boris Yeltsin
"God does not play dice with the cosmos."
- Albert Einstein
"Have the courage to live. Anyone can die."
- Robert Cody
"Tell me what you're laughing at and I shall tell
you who you are."
- Goethe
"You are not thinking. You are merely being logical."
- Neils Bohr to Albert Einstein
"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
the wise grows it under his
feet."
- James Oppenheim
"A leader takes people where they want to go.
A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but
ought to be."
- Rosalynn Carter
"The sword is a lethal weapon, the sword skill
is the skill of killing, no matter how beautiful the words you use to call
it, killing is still the fact."
- Himura Kenshin
"Excellence means when a man or woman asks of
himself more than others do."
- Jose Ortega Y Gasset
"Don't be afraid to fail. Don't waste energy trying
to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge.
It's OK to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing."
- H. Stanley Judd
"Each friend represents a world in us, a world
possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that
a new world is born."
- Anais Nin
"If you're able to be yourself, then you have
no competition. All you have to do is get closer and closer to that essence."
- Barbara Cook
"There are some people who live in a dream world,
and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn
one into the other."
- Douglas Everett
"We have no more right to consume happiness without
producing it than to consume wealth without producing it."
- George Bernard Shaw, _Candida_
"To be good is noble; but to show others how to
be good is nobler and no
trouble."
- Mark Twain, _Following_the_Equator_
"Don't be afraid to take a big step when one is
indicated. You can't cross a
chasm in two small steps."
- David Lloyd George
"Imagination is more important than knowledge;
for knowledge is limited while
imagination embraces the entire world."
- Albert Einstein
That's all.