'Be strong and determined and no-body can hurt you,

only you can hurt yourself'

- Michael Jackson

'If you wanna make the world a better place,

take a look at yourself and then make a change'

- Michael Jackson ('Man In The Mirror')

'God is Love'

- David Blaine (From his touching autobiography; 'Mysterious Stranger')

'There's no coming to consciousness, without pain'

- David Blaine (From 'Above The Below' - London 2003)

'I can see, where I was once blind - now I can see...I can see you'

- David Blaine (From 'Above The Below' - London 2003)

'It's good to question things'

- David Blaine (From 'Above The Below' - London 2003)

'Everyone tells me to speak more, but, I don't like talking about nothing'

- David Blaine (From 'Above The Below' - London 2003)

'You can find the best in the worst, you know, you can be either optimistic or pessimistic'

- David Blaine (From 'Above The Below' - London 2003)

'God, Faith, Will, Water - Believe in the spirit over the flesh, then you will have nothing to fear.  If you worship the flesh, then you should fear every second of life'

- David Blaine (From 'Above The Below' - London 2003)

'Mind Over Matter'

- David Blaine (From 'Above The Below' - London 2003)

'Ignore our petty little thoughts of what suffering is'

- David Blaine (From 'Above The Below' - London 2003)

'Freedom...free at last, free at last'

- David Blaine (From 'Above The Below' - London 2003)

'It's easy to take for granted all of the simple pleasures in life, these mean much more than anything that money could buy.  Even breathing in clean air is a gift from God.  I'm positive that the best things in life are free - we cannot buy them.'

- David Blaine (From 'Above The Below' - London 2003)

'I could hear lies creeping out of the corners of your mouth, before you spoke...I could read you like an empty page'

- David Blaine (From 'Above The Below' - London 2003)

'Resisting temptation is a good way to build character'

- David Blaine (From 'Above The Below' - London 2003)

'When I do magic, people give reasons why they believe I do it. They are usually wrong. The reason I do it is for the wonder. For me, wonder is the greatest feeling that there is. So, what I do is create a moment with the absence of the outside world in which we are living...a moment of truth where there is no B.S.....a moment where we are not worried about who is mad at who and who is fighting who, what race they are....what creed. And magic strips that away. I just want to be someone who inspires people to feel that for one moment.'

- David Blaine

'Real living is living for others'

- Bruce Lee

'Sorrows are our best educator. 

A man can see further through a tear than a telescope'

- Bruce Lee

'I respect faith, but, doubt is what gets you an education'

- Bruce Lee

'Money is a means, not an end'

- Bruce Lee

'Requirement to be an artist; purity of heart'

- Bruce Lee

'One must always strive to be better. 

The sky's the limit'

- Bruce Lee

'Truth cannot be structured or confined. 

When there is no centre and no circumference, then there is truth'

- Bruce Lee

'If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.'

- Bruce Lee

'That man in whom truth is bright, has no anger'

- Bruce Lee

'Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning'

- Bruce Lee

'Nothing exists, except the here and now'

- Bruce Lee

'There can be no initiative if one has fear and fear compels us to cling to tradition, gurus etc...'

- Bruce Lee

'If every man would help his neighbour, no man would be without help'

- Bruce Lee

'True friends are like diamonds, precious and rare.

False friends are like Autumn leaves, found everywhere'

- Bruce Lee

'Religions divide people, just as styles (in martial art) divide people.  If all the religions of the world were one, the world would be united in brotherhood.  Some people fight with others because they believe in different religions.  If, however they only gave the matter a bit of thought, they would never fight for such a foolish cause'

- Bruce Lee

'There is intelligence, when you are not afraid'

- Bruce Lee

'Knowledge will give you power, but, character respect'

- Bruce Lee

'The true artist has no public; he works for the sheer joy of it, with an element of playfulness, of casualness.  Art reaches it's greatest peak when devoid of self-consciousness.  Freedom discovers man the moment he loses concern over what impression he is making or about to make.'

- Bruce Lee

'Like everyone else, you want to learn the way to win.  But, never accept the way to lose.  To accept defeat, to learn to die, is to be liberated from it.  Once you accept, you are free to flow and harmonize.  Fluidity is the way to an empty mind.  You must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying...'

- Bruce Lee

Oftentimes people come up to me and ask;

'Bruce - are you really that good?' 

I say; 'Well if I tell you I'm good,' probably you will say I'm boasting.  But, if I tell you; 'I'm no good,' you'll know I'm lying.  I have the absolute confidence not to be number two, but, then I have enough sense also to realise that there can be no number one.

- Bruce Lee

'Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water.  Now, you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot.  Now, water can flow or it can crash...Be water my friend...'

- Bruce Lee

An interviewer asked Bruce Lee the following;

'Do you still consider yourself as Chinese or do you ever think of yourself as North American?'

Bruce Lee answered;

'Do you know what I want to think of myself?... As a human being, because I mean, I don't want to sound like (as Confucius would say) but, under the sky, under the heaven man, there is but, one family, it just so happens that people are different.'

- Bruce Lee

'Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.'
- Bruce Lee

'Even if you're not hungry, just be greedy!'

'For those who believe, no explanation is necessary,

for those who do not, none will suffice'

'What you are is God's gift to you,

what you make of yourself is your gift to God'

- Inscription off a door chime

'Find god - he isn't hiding from you,

you're hiding from him'

- Paramahansa Yogananda  

'Men talk of "finding God," but no wonder it is difficult;

He is hidden in that darkest hiding - place, your heart. You yourself are a part of Him'

- Christopher Morley

'A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world'

- Mohammed

'The wise person will always rise above'

- Inscription from a Buddhist notebook

'Money talks'

- Common Saying

'There is always light at the end of the tunnel'

- Common Saying

'Every dog has his day!'

- Common Saying

'No pain, no gain'

- Common Saying

'You reap what you sow'

- Common Saying

'What goes around, comes around'

- Common Saying

'Two wrongs don't make a right'

- Common Saying

'There are always two sides to a story'

- Common Saying

'There is only one truth in this universe, the name of God'

- Common saying

'ONLY GOD CAN JUDGE ME'

- Common saying

'God may not come when you call him,

but, he always comes on time'

- Common saying

'To the world you may be one person,

but to one person you may be the world'

- Common saying

'Where there is a will, there is a way'

- Common saying

'Good things come to those who wait'

- Common saying

'SEEK AND YE SHALL FIND!'

- Common Saying
 

'Don't believe anything you hear and only half of what you see'

- Common Saying

'Today I will live for today, because yesterday has gone and tomorrow may never come'

- Common Saying

'God works in mysterious ways'

- Common Saying

'JUDGE NOT LEST YE BE JUDGED'

- Common Saying

'United We Stand, Divided We Fall'

- Common Saying

'Beauty is in the eye of the beholder'

- Common Saying

'HELL HATH NO FURY AS A WOMAN SCORNED!'

- Common Saying

‘Patience is a virtue’

- Common Saying

‘You haven't failed until you quit trying.’

- Common Saying

‘Knowledge is power’

- Common Saying

'Actions speak louder than words'

- Common Saying

A person who can explain colour to a blind man, can explain everything in life...

- unknown

'Yesterday's dream is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow'

- Unknown

‘What's popular isn't always right. What's right isn't always popular’

- Unknown

'I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not'

- Unknown

‘Never live in the past but always learn from it.’

- Unknown

'If you can't be a part of the solution, then don't be a part of the problem'

- Unknown

‘You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.’

- Anonymous

‘The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.’

- Anonymous

‘You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.’

- Anonymous

The most selfish one letter word..........."I" -- Avoid it.
The most satisfying two-letter word........"WE" -- Use it
The most poisonous three-letter word......."EGO" -- Kill it.
The most used four-letter word........"LOVE" -- Value it.
The most pleasing five-letter word......."SMILE" -- Keep it.
The fastest spreading six-letter word......"RUMOUR" -- Ignore it.
The hardest working seven-letter word....."SUCCESS" -- Achieve it.
The most enviable eight-letter word......."JEALOUSY" -- Distance it.
The most powerful nine-letter word......."KNOWLEDGE" -- Acquire it.
The most essential ten-letter word......"CONFIDENCE" -- Trust it

- anonymous

'A gossip is someone who's the knife of the party.'

- Morris Bender

‘PREJUDICE IS THE CHILD OF IGNORANCE’

- William Hazlitt

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'You cannot open a book without learning something.'

- Confucius

'You must be the change you wish to see in the world'

- Mahatma Gandhi

'If we are to have real peace,

we must begin with the children'

- Mahatma Gandhi
 

Gandhi was once asked what he thought about western civilization.

His response was:

"I think it would be a good idea"

- Mahatma Gandhi

If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies;
Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
Be honest and frank anyway.

What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
Build anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
Be happy anyway.

The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;
Give the world the best you've got anyway.

You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God;
It never was between you and them anyway.'

-Mother Teresa

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