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.
Don’t fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.
If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.
Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.
Be happy, but never satisfied.
Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successfull personality and duplicate it.
Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.
Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.
Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.
If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.
A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.
If you don’t want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.
The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.
To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.
Obey the principles without being bound by them.
A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.
As you think, so shall you become.
Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.
Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.
If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.
Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.
To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one’s potential.
Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
Real living is living for others.
If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.
Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.
The possession of anything begins in the mind.
I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.
“One day you will kiss a man you can’t breathe without, and find that breath is of little consequence.”
“Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”
“Promise me you’ll never forget me because if I thought you would, I’d never leave.”
“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”
“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”
“Yes, I was infatuated with you: I am still. No one has ever heightened such a keen capacity of physical sensation in me. I cut you out because I couldn’t stand being a passing fancy. Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams. And you weren’t having any of those.”
“I’m oxygen and he’s dying to breathe.”
“Do not fall in love with people like me.
I will take you to museums, and parks, and monuments, and kiss you in every beautiful place, so that you can never go back to them without tasting me like blood in your mouth.
I will destroy you in the most beautiful way possible. And when I leave you will finally understand, why storms are named after people.”
“Then I realize what it is. It’s him. Something about him makes me feel like I am about to fall. Or turn to liquid. Or burst into flames.”
“People have forgotten this truth,” the fox said. “But you mustn’t forget it. You become responsible forever for what you’ve tamed. You’re responsible for your rose.”
“I’m saying that I’m a moody, insecure, narrow-minded, jealous, borderline homicidal bitch, and I want you to promise me that you’re okay with that, because it’s who I am, and you’re what I need.”
“A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.”
“I bet you could sometimes find all the mysteries of the universe in someone’s hand.”
“The saddest people I’ve ever met in life are the ones who don’t care deeply about anything at all. Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there’s nothing to make it last.”
“I fell in love with him. But I don’t just stay with him by default as if there’s no one else available to me. I stay with him because I choose to, every day that I wake up, every day that we fight or lie to each other or disappoint each other. I choose him over and over again, and he chooses me.”
“Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.”
“Who, being loved, is poor?”
“I’m on Aslan’s side even if there isn’t any Aslan to lead it. I’m going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn’t any Narnia.”
“Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby- awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.”
“There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.”
“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
“We’re staying together,” he promised. “You’re not getting away from me. Never again.”
“The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.”
“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.”
“Come sleep with me: We won’t make Love, Love will make us.”
“True love is usually the most inconvenient kind.”
“Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on.
I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you.”
“It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.”
“You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.”
“I read once that the ancient Egyptians had fifty words for sand & the Eskimos had a hundred words for snow. I wish I had a thousand words for love, but all that comes to mind is the way you move against me while you sleep & there are no words for that.”
“Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that’s all. You can’t see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken another heightens. Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it.”
“From childhood’s hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.”
“One word
Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
That word is love.”
“The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
And all the sweet serenity of books”
“Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.”
“When he died, all things soft and beautiful and bright would be buried with him.”
“The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it…”
“When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.”
“The world was collapsing, and the only thing that really mattered to me was that she was alive.”
“The more one judges, the less one loves.”