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Relevant Quotes

"The fight is won and lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym and out there on the road - long before I dance under those lights."

Muhammad Ali (1942- )

"If I accept you as you are, I will not help you. However, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of being, I help you.''

Goethe (1749-1832)

''God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.''

Machiavelli (1469-1527)

''One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.''

Jung (1875-1961)

One of his students asked Buddha, "Are you the messiah ?" "No", answered Buddha. "Then are you a healer?" "No", Buddha replied. "Then are you a teacher?" the student persisted. "No, I am not a teacher." "Then what are you?" asked the student, exasperated. "I am awake", Buddha replied.

Buddha (563-483BC)

''If I'd asked my customers what they wanted, they'd have said a faster horse.''

Ford (1863-1947)

''The aim of life is self-development. To realise one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.''

Wilde (1854-1900)

''The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.''

Machiavelli (1469-1527)

''Science consists in grouping facts so that general laws or conclusions may be drawn from them.''

Darwin (1809-1882)

"A fool judges people by the presents they give him."

Chinese proverb

"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."

Einstein (1879-1955)

''Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.''

Gibran (1883-1931)

''To become who we are and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the

only end in life.'' 

R L Stevenson

"The only true medicine is consciousness awakening to itself. What a surprise when we realise that what is seeking is the very thing being sought !"

Jarrett (1959- )

 

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."

Gandhi (1869-1948)

''The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.''

Machiavelli (1469-1527)

"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts."

Einstein (1879-1955)

"As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it."

Gandhi (1869-1948)

''Muddy water, let stand becomes clear.''

Lao Tzu (600 BC)

"Eating, drinking, sleeping! A little laughter! Much weeping! Is that all ? Do not die here like a worm. Wake up! Attain Immortal Bliss."

Sivananda (1887-1963)

''I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details."

Einstein (1879-1955)

''He who knows how to be aggressive, and yet remains patient, becomes a receptacle for all of Nature's lessons.''

Lao Tzu

"Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least."

Goethe (1749-1832)

"Either you ran today, or you didn't."

Nike advertisement (circa 2000)

'' ... the integral being is attached to nothing and can relate to everyone with an unstructured attitude. Because of this, her very existence benefits all things.''

Lao Tzu

"Arise, transcend thyself. Thou art man and the whole nature of man is to become more than himself."

Aurobindo (1872-1950)

"What does not kill me makes me stronger."

Goethe (1749-1832)

''The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.''

Lao Tzu

''Brains aren't designed to get result; they go in directions. If you know how the brain works you can set your own directions. If you don't, then someone else will.''

Grinder (1940- )

"Action is the foundational key to all success."

Robbins (1960- )

"Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people adapt the world to themselves. That's why all progress depends on unreasonable people."

Shaw (1856-1950)

"You no got smile on yo face - no use open shop !"

Jamaican proverb

"Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status-quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify, or vilify them. But the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”

Jobs (1955- )

''It is the foolish man whom only has a short memory.''

Unknown

''Do not confuse activity with productivity nor efficiency.''

Einstein (1879-1955)

''Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.''

Machiavelli (1469-1527)

''The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.''

Merton (1915-1968)

''The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.''

Confucius (551-479 BC)

''We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, ''Blessed are they that mourn.''''

CS Lewis (1898-1963)

''Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.''

Rumi

''Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn't you - all of the expectations, all of the beliefs - and becoming who you are.''

Rachel Naomi Remen

''The problem with thinking about your own past is you forget its genesis and start to feel useless awe towards your earlier self.''

Eno (1948- )

"When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised God doesn’t work that way, so I stole one and prayed for forgiveness.''

Emo Philips (1956- )

''If I didn't see everything as a complete joke, I would've been locked up years ago. I would've gone completely insane." 

Andrew Weatherall (1963- )