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“To Bruce Lee, philosophy was not the professional playground of academics, but every human being’s gateway to the greatest adventure of the human spirit. It illuminated the frontiers of human possibility and obliterated the shadows of doubt and insecurity. Unlike others, content to follow, Bruce Lee insisted upon charting his own course toward truth, and he encouraged those who wished to share his insights to do likewise. While Lee was a champion of individual rights and individual development, both of which stress the sovereignty of the individual as an end in himself, he also spoke to something deeper—the commonality of all human beings and the removal of such artificial barriers to true brotherhood as nationality, ethnicity, and class structure, so that human beings could live together peaceably as independent equals. Bruce Lee rejected blind obedience to”
― Bruce Lee

“The promise, made when I am in love and because I am in love, to be true to the beloved as long as I live, commits me to being true even if I cease to be in love. A promise must be about things that I can do, about actions: no one can promise to go on feeling in a certain way. He might as well promise to never have a headache or always to feel hungry.” 
― C.S. Lewis

“We don’t have to be on the battlefields of the world to experience strife and conflict. We need only to open our eyes each morning and read the headlines, we need only to turn a keen ear when our phones ring with bad news, we need only to open our hearts to those next door—and maybe even in our own homes—to notice those with grieving hearts.”
― Billy Graham

“Be willing to pass through a short term pain so that you can come out with a long term gain. Don't fear the horrible waves of the waters; just dare to cross and you get there!”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“Talk to strangers politely... Every friend you have now was once a stranger, although not every stranger becomes a friend.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“La non-violence est la loi de notre espèce, comme la violence est la loi de la brute. L'esprit somnole chez la brute qui ne connaît pour toute loi que cette de la force physique. La dignité de l'homme exige d'obéir à une loi supérieure. à la force de l'esprit.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“el conocimiento es poder”. ¡No es nada de eso! El conocimiento es sólo un poder potencial. Se convierte en poder sólo cuando, y si está, organizado en planes definidos de acción, y dirigido a un fin determinado.”
― Napoleon Hill

“La mayoría de personas emplean más tiempo planeando sus vacaciones de verano que planeando sus vidas”
― John C. Maxwell

“When you live today, being accountable for yesterday, today will be better because you would have taken the chance to know the activities and people who unmade and made your day and edit today's plans for the better.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“Our problems are no longer problems when we seek learning instead of leisure.”
― John C. Maxwell

“This helps me ‘keep the main thing, the main thing,’ since I am so easily distracted.” You may want to do something similar,
― John C. Maxwell

“When the lenses in the eyes of a leader captures tomorrow, they don't print the passport size of it. They make enlargements.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“We are no longer in the dispensation of age and experience. We are in the era of knowledge and information. Information leads a true leader and a true leader leads others.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Make the right decision even when nobody is looking. Especially when no one is looking.”
― Oprah Winfrey

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