Jerry Van Amerongen
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song !
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If you feel you have no faults there's another one.
The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.
A simple I love you means more than money.
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand.
Success is predictable.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
True love can not be found where it truly does not exist, Nor can it be hidden where it truly does.
Plan your progress carefully , hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power. Planning for happiness is rarely successful. Happiness just happens.
We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. Philip Brooks Children are the reward of life.
Do you think that there is a word that contains all of the vowels? Unquestionably.
With malice toward none, with charity for all.
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.
There are no mistakes, save one, the failure to learn from a mistake.
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.
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.
Motivation is like food for the brain. You can not get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular refills.
Badges ? We ain't got no badges ! We don't need no badges ! I don't have to show you any stinking badges !
You cannot live without dying. You cannot live if you do not die psychologically every minute. This is not an intellectual paradox. To live completely, wholly, every day as if it were a new loveliness, there must be dying to everything of yesterday, otherwise you live mechanically, and a mechanical mind can never know what love is or what freedom is.
One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.
To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.
Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
O Captain ! My Captain ! our fearful trip is done.
Happy wife, happy life.
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
Hi-Yo, Silver !
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
The handgun would not be my choice of weapon if I knew I was going to a fight. ...I'd choose a rifle, a shotgun, an RPG or an atomic bomb instead.
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action
All men dream, but unequally. Those that dream at night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake the next day to find that their dreams were just vanity. But those who dream during the day with their eyes wide open are dangerous men , they act out their dreams to make them reality.
I always say a kiss on the hand might feel very good, but a diamond tiara lasts forever.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn.
Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude.
Sometimes you gotta say, What the fuck.
But there's nothing half so sweet in life, as love's young dream.
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
We can not always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
I'll have what she's having.
"I can't do it" never accomplished anything ; "I will try" has performed miracles.
Change comes from within.
Be all you can be.
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny. All the strength and succor you want is within yourself. Therefore, make your own future.
Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.
That dirty, double-crossin' rat !
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Coming together is a beginning keeping together is progress working together is success.
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
Kids don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.
Self-knowledge is the basis of JKD because it is effective, not only for the individuals martial art, but also for his life as a human being.
Mama, face it. I was the slut of all time.
He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
Why don't you go outside and jerk yourself a soda ?
Love is not selfish.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
Tonight's weather forecast - dark, with continued darkness until morning.
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.
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, his eyes are closed.
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
is the greatest gift of the mind , it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
I'm an excellent driver.
It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.
Warriors, come out to play !
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown.
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this ? And radio operates exactly the same way : you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
Old love does not rust.
Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Press forsake! Go ahead and press 'forsake now' !
Wisdom is knowing what to do next.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
Roll with the punches.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of bondage -- to remain curious, open, unsatiated in all its relations with nature -- is tenfold more difficult than the cultivation of a stable, satisfying point of view, but a thousandfold more precious.
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
A life lived in fear is half lived.
Only those who are absolutely their true selves in this world can have pervading influence.
Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.
For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.