Randolph Ray
Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.
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Anything in life worth having is worth working for.
It is what you learn after you know it all that counts.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'
It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.
Happiness is a state of mind.
Unfortunately, most of the students in martial art are conformers. The student seldom learns to depend upon himself for expression. Instead, he faithfully or blindly follows an instructor, the authority figure, and his instructor's imposed pattern. That way, the student feels he is no longer alone and finds security in mass imitation. However, what is nurtured is the dependent mind rather than independent inquiry, which is so essential to genuine understanding. So through daily conditioning a student will probably be skilled according to a pattern, however, he will not come to understand himself.
When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
Till I loved, I never lived, enough.
Are you fit company for the person you wish to become ?
End your day by privately looking directly into your eyes in the mirror and saying, 'I love you ! ' Do this for thirty days and watch how you transform.
There's no such thing as not enough time if you're doing what you want to do.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
What can be said but not practiced is better not said. What can be practiced but not spoken of is better not done.
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em, Certainly I can ! - and get busy and find out how to do it
The art of love, is largely the art of persistence.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
, Nobel Peace Prize winner We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
He who stops being better stops being good.
Don't think it, ink it.
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
If I'd been a ranch, they would've named me the Bar Nothing.
Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.
Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
I gave her my heart, and she gave me a pen.
Love is a hole in the heart.
Your voice makes me tremble inside and your smile is an invitation for my imagination to go wild.
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
Mr. Allen, this may come as a shock to you, but there are some men who don't end every sentence with a proposition.
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
Forget about it.
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group, there is less competition there.
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
There is no security on this earth ; there is only opportunity.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.
We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.
Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved
All that is real in me is god. All that is real in god is I. The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain !
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Do you like scary movies ?
First rule of fight club is, you do not talk about fight Club.
For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
When we place blame, we give away our power.
Can you dig it ?
No fate is worse than a life without a love.
I am resolved that I will not through my humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
Hey, lady !
Be grateful to the Man you help, think of him as god. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship god by helping our fellow men ?
Ideals serve well as our guides. They are like beacons on a journey , they do not permit us to tarry, as though our goal and rest were already contained in them.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.
An Arabian proverb says there are four sorts of men: He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool, shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple, teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows: he is asleep--wake him. He who knows and knows he knows: he is wise, follow him.
Shut up and deal.
If a man does his best, what else is there ?
You can do anything you put your mind to.
Find out what it means to die - not physically, that's inevitable - but to die to everything that is known, to die to your family, to your attachments, to all the things that you have accumulated, the known, the known pleasures, the known fears. Die to that every minute and you will see what it means to die so that the mind is made fresh, young, and therefore innocent, so that there is incarnation not in a next life, but the next day.
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.
Love like you'll never be hurt.
The death of fear is in doing what you fear to do.
Well done is better than well said.
I didn't have time to hire half my coaching staff. I didn't know any of the players by sight, but somehow we got through spring ball with the help of a couple of graduate assistants.
And our bodies are earth. And our thoughts are clay. And we sleep and eat with death.
The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.
Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
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.
Dyin' ain't much of a living, boy.
There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.
Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
You talkin to me ?
The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds, they mature slowly.
Let's roll.
I'm here to fight for truth, justice, and the american way.
The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.
Life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing , every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves, 'This day let me make a sound beginning
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.
We have only one reality, and that is here and now. What we miss by our evasions will never return, but if we squander ourselves, then too we lose being. Each day is precious a moment can be everything.
Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make.
Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight ?
The successful man is the average man, focused.
One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.
I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules if, behind them, they didn't have a little bit of plain, ordinary, everyday kindness and a little looking out for the other fella, too.
Before I learned the art, a punch was just a punch, and a kick, just a kick. After I learned the art, a punch was no longer a punch, a kick, no longer a kick. Now that I understand the art, a punch is just a punch and a kick is just a kick.
Use what talent you possess, the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
One who walks the road with love will never walk the road alone.
How do you live ?
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow , Learn as if you were to live forever.