Miranda > Miranda's Quotes

“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.

Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and 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

“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.”
― Bruce Lee

“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.”
― Bruce Lee

“To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.”
― Bruce Lee

“Don't fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.”
― Bruce Lee, Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

“Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.”
― Bruce Lee

“If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.”
― Bruce Lee

“Now I see that I will never find the light
Unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel,
Consuming myself.”
― Bruce Lee

“As you think, so shall you become.”
― Bruce Lee

“If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo.”
― Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do

“Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.”
― Bruce Lee

“Those who are unaware they are walking in darkness will never seek the light.”
― Bruce Lee

“All knowledge leads to self-knowledge.”
― Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do

“The idea is that flowing water never goes stale, so just keep on flowing.”
― Bruce Lee

“It's like a finger pointing away to the moon. Don't concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory.”
― Bruce Lee, Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

“If you think a thing is impossible,you'll only make it impossible.”
― Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do

“It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.”
― Bruce Lee

“I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything

“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
― Oscar Wilde

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”
― oscar wilde

“Who, being loved, is poor?”
― Oscar Wilde

“Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.”
― Oscar Wilde

“With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”
― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

“I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.”
― Oscar Wilde

“To define is to limit.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray