All Passions Lead To Exaggeration - That Is Why They Are Quotes

All passions lead to exaggeration -
that is why they are passions.

It is better to die on your feet
than to live on your knees. - Emiliano Zapata

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)

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

If you do not change direction,
you may end up where you are heading.
- Lao Tzu

We are all here on earth to help others;
what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
- W. H. Auden

The law of the river,
like the law of being,
is infinite progression.
You never boat in the same river twice.
- Tryon Edwards