Dante
Remember tonight, for it is the beginning of always.
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Learning is definitely not mere imitation or the ability to accumulate and conform to fixed knowledge. Learning is a constant process of discovery and never a concluding one. In JKD we begin not by accumulation but by discovering the cause of our ignorance, and oftentimes this involves a shedding process. Truth will not come until we have come to understand personally the whole process of the working of our being. After all, ultimately, knowledge in martial art simply means self-knowledge, and JKD can become intelligible only in the vigorous and constant process of self-inquiry and self-discovery.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
It's like, I became such a good person, I almost forgot... I'm a world class liar, baby !
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Did my heart love'til now ? Foreswear its sight, for I never saw true beauty'til this night.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
Man is a ladder placed on the earth and the top of it touches heaven. And all his movements and doings and words leave traces in the upper world.
Believe that the loose ball that you are chasing has your name on it.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
It takes a whole village to raise a child.
A teacher, a really good teacher, is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to truth. Therefore, a good teacher, or, more appropriately, a guide, studies each student individually and helps to awaken the student to explore himself, both internally and externally, and ultimately to integrate himself with his being. All in all, a teacher acts as a catalyst, and not only must he have a tremendous understanding; he must also possess a sensitive mind with great flexibility and adaptability.
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
The way to happiness : keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.
Action is the antidote to despair.
The best things in life are not things.
Congress is the only insane asylum that's run by the inmates.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes-- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds'--can you help others do the same.
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
Bumper Sticker - Join the Army. See the world, travel to far away places, meet exotic people and kill them.
I'm the ghost with the most, babe.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Hey, Johnny, what are you rebelling against ?
Embrace me, my sweet embraceable you !
Love is like swallowing hot chocolate, before it has cooled off. It takes you by surprise at first, but keeps you warm for a long time.
Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.
One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape !
Love conquers all things, let us too surrender to love.
I love you for what you are, but I love you yet more for what you are going to be. I love you not so much for your realities as for your ideals. I pray for your desires that they may be great, rather than for your satisfactions, which may be so hazardously little. You are going forward toward something great. I am on the way with you, and therefore I love you.
It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade !
Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.
The miracle is this - the more we share, the more we have.
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves ; and under a just God, cannot long retain it.
The art of love, is largely the art of persistence.
A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.
Above all, beware of compromises. I do not mean that you are to get into antagonism with anybody, but you have to hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others "fads" through the greed of getting supporters.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear, about two nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying, and two perhaps can be settled.
The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart, the secret anniversaries of the heart.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
With my brains and your looks, we could go places.
You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon- instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.
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.
You make me want to be a better man. As good as it gets.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
If I had more time, I'd write a shorter speech.
Tough times never last but tough people do.
I think people should mate for life, like pigeons or catholics.
Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
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.
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
What greater thing is there for two human souls that to feel that they are joined, to strengthen each other, to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better.
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
I gave her my heart, and she gave me a pen.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary person does not hear.
We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
Some people enter our lives and leave almost instantly. Others stay, and forge such an impression on our heart and soul, we are changed forever.
Snap out of it !
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
Snakes ! Why did it have to be snakes ?
Love is not blind. It sees more and not less, but because it sees more it is willing to see less.
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
The loving are the daring.
Whatever it takes !
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of god is confined to this or that book ? How dare men call god infinite, and yet try to compress him within the covers of a little book !