What Lies Behind Us, And What Lies Before Us Are Tiny Quotes

What lies behind us, and
what lies before us are tiny matters
compared to what lies within us. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready.
Not thinking, yet not dreaming.
Ready for whatever may come.
When the opponent expands, I contract;
and when he contracts, I expand.
And when there is an opportunity, "I" do not hit,
"it" hits all by itself.
- Bruce Lee: Enter the Dragon (1973)

Ignorance is the curse of God ;
knowledge is the wing wherewith
we fly to heaven .
- William Shakespeare

Nations are born in the hearts of poets;
they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.

Where there is ruin,
there is hope for a treasure..
- Jalaluddin Rumi

The most wasted of all days
is one in which you did not once laugh.

When angry, count ten before you speak;
if very angry, a hundred. - Thomas Jefferson