Robin St. John
What the heart gives away is never gone. It is kept in the hearts of others.
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Captain, it is I, Ensign Pulver, and I just threw your stinking palm tree overboard. Now, what's all this crud about no movie tonight ?
The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.
Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die !
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Until we take how we see ourselves (and how we see others) into account, we will be unable to understand how others see and feel about themselves and their world. Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behavior and call ourselves objective.
Anything that makes you weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Life can only be understood backwards , but it must be lived forwards.
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
The vedanta recognizes no sin, it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.
The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone, or to recreate it.
People who worked with me or knew me still called me the 'world's fastest human' because I almost never stopped. I'd found that I could get more done with no regular job or regular hours at all, but by being on my own, flying to speak here, help with a public relations campaign for some client there, tape my regular jazz radio show one morning at 5:00 a.m. before leaving on a plane for another city or another continent three hours later to preside over a major sporting event.
So whether or not we can get together, remember well that art lives where absolute freedom is. With all the training thrown to nowhere, with a mind perfectly unaware of its own working, with the self vanishing nowhere the art of JKD attains its perfection.
We'll always have Paris.
I'm king of the world !
Be Here Now.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
Know thyself.
We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.
Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
To succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask, Where have I gone wrong ? Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart the best brain.
Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness
The book you don't read cant help.
It's always darkest before the dawn.
When you shoot a mime, should you use blanks ?
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
I am your father.
Open the pod bay doors,
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.
Every artist was first an amateur.
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never !
To laugh often and love much, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to give one's self, this is to have succeeded.
There are no gains without pains.
All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm which is in your power to do and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Hey, Johnny, what are you rebelling against ?
Repeat anything long enough and it will start to become you.
It is the true season of love when we know that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
Where love reigns the impossible may be attained.
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.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast, a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
It's good to be the king !
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
Mr. Christian !
Get busy livin, or get busy dyin'.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you can not do.
Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
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.
In life you can never be too kind or too fair ; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with.
The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind, to train it to the use of its own powers rather than to fill it with the accumulation of others.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
I'll meet you at the place near the thing where we went that time.
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.
You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
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.
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.
Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape !
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
Life is a do-it yourself project.
There's always a way - if you're committed.
Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me. Aren't you ?
If you don't set goals, you can't regret not reaching them.
The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles.
Hey, lady !
True love is when your heart and your mind are saying the same thing.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. tremendous stream is flowing toward the ocean, carrying us all along with it , and though like straws and scraps of paper we may at times float aimlessly about, in the long run we are sure to join the ocean of life and bliss.
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.
The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business or in anything else, for that matter.
But because I am mad, I hate you. Because I am mad, I have betrayed you. And because I'm mad, I'm rejoicing in my heart, without a shred of pity, without a shred of regret, watching you go with glory in my heart !
Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Desire, ignorance, and inequality, this is the trinity of bondage.
It's never too late to be what you might have been.
Be all you can be.
You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
Look at that ! Look how she moves. That's just like Jell-O on springs. She must have some sort of built-in motor. I tell you, it's a whole different sex !
Mightier far than strength of nerve or sinew, or the sway of magic potent over sun and star, is love.
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
Leave the gun. Take the cannolis.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how''.