Jason

"My mother said to me, if you become a soldier, you'll be a general, if you become a monk, you'll end up as the pope. Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso." --Picasso
"By keeping quiet, repressing nothing, remaining attentive, and by accepting reality-taking things as they are, and not as I wanted them to be-by doing all this, unusual knowldge has come to me, and unusual powers as well, such as I could never have imagined before. I always thought that when we accepted things, they overpowered us in some way or other. This turns out not to be true at all, and it is only by accepting them that one can assume an attitude towards them. So now I intend to play the game of life, being receptive to whatever comes to me, good and bad, sun and shadow forever alternating, and in this way, also accepting my own nature with its positive and negative sides. Thus everything becomes more alive to me. What a fool I was! How I tried to force everything to go according to the way I thought it ought to."
--One of Carl Jung's longtime patients.
" It's better to aim for the stars and land in the trees than to aim for the trees and land in the mud."
--Unknown
"Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character."
--Horace Greeley
“To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your own path, and don't worry about the darkness, for that is when the stars shine brightest.”
--Anonymous
"In Buddhism, there is no place for using effort. Just be ordinary and nothing special. Eat your food, move your bowels, pass water and when you're tired go and lie down. The ignorant will laugh at me, but the wise will understand."
--Bruce Lee
"Art reaches its 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
"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying."
--Woody Allen
"Take a good look at this face...because it's gonna be a long time before you see a bad guy like me again!"
--Scarface
"When the game is over, the king and the pawn go back into the same box."
--Italian Proverb
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
"'Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is nonexistent. And don't bother conceiling your thievery-celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: 'It's not where you take things from-it's where you take them to."
--Jim Jarmusch
"No need for temples. No need for complicated philosophy. Your own mind, your own heart, is the temple; your philosophy is simple kindness."
--Dalai Lama
"My life has been a quest for a world where the words to the songs are true."
--Hugh Hefner
"A man's reach should exceed his grasp, else what's a heaven for?"
--Hugh Hefner
"For me, it was never really an 'act,'those so-called performances. It was a life-and-death thing, an attempt to communicate, to involve many people in a private world of thought."
--Jim Morrison
"...and that's why poetry appeals to me so much--because it's so eternal. As long as there are people, they can remember words and combinations of words. Nothing else can survive a holocaust but poetry and songs. No one can remember an entire novel. No one can describe a film, a piece of sculpture, a painting, but so long as there are human beings, songs and poetry can continue."
--Jim Morrison
"I dreamt that I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?"
--Chuang Tsu
Success
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children;
to earn the appreciation of honest critics
and endure the betrayal of false friends;
to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others;
to leave the world a bit better,
whether by a healthy child,
a garden patch
or a redeemed social condition;
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it."
--Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC), The Dharmapada
"Some people are born with good physiques, a sense of speed and a lot of stamina. That's fine. But in the martial arts everything you learn is an acquired skill.
Absorbing a martial art is like the experience of Buddhism. The feeling for it comes from the heart. you have the dedication to get what you know you need. When it becomes part of you, you know you have it. you succeed at it. You may never fully understand all of it, but you keep at it. And as you progress you know the true nature of the simple way. You may join a temple or a kwoon. You observe nature's simple way. You experience a life you never had before."
---Bruce Lee
Courage
"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly...who knows the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who have known neither victory nor defeat."
---Teddy Roosevelt
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