1. A man’s brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women’s brain does.

2. Difficult times always create opportunities for you to experience more love in your life.

3. Men aren’t the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they’ve been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate.

4. No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

5. The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place.

6. The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

7. What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning.

8. Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.

9. Living with integrity means: Not settling for less than what you know you deserve in your relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speaking your truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values. Making choices based on what you believe, and not what others believe.

10.You can’t ask for what you want unless you know what it is. A lot of people don’t know what they want or they want much less than they deserve. First you have figure out what you want. Second, you have to decide that you deserve it. Third, you have to believe you can get it. And, fourth, you have to have the guts to ask for it.

11. No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.

12. The greatest gift you and your partner can give your children is the example of an intimate, healthy, and loving relationship.

Lee was born in San Francisco, California, and raised in Hong Kong until his late teens. His Hong Kong and Hollywood-produced films elevated the traditional Hong Kong martial arts film to a new level of popularity and acclaim, and sparked the second major surge of interest in Chinese martial arts in the West. The direction and tone of his films changed and influenced martial arts and martial arts films in Hong Kong and the rest of the world as well. He is noted for his roles in five feature length films, Lo Wei’s The Big Boss (1971) and Fist of Fury (1972); Way of the Dragon (1972), directed and written by Bruce Lee; Warner Brothers’ Enter the Dragon (1973), directed by Robert Clouse, and The Game of Death (1978).

Lee became an iconic figure, particularly among the Chinese, as he portrayed Chinese national pride and Chinese nationalism in his movies. While Lee initially trained in Wing Chun, he later rejected well-defined martial art styles, favoring instead to utilize useful techniques from various sources.

———————————–

Sayings by Bruce Lee

1. A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.

2. Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

3. Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one’s potential.

4. If you always put limit 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.

5. If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

6. If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.

7. Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

More Quotes

In 2001, she released her third studio album Britney and played as the starring role in the film Crossroads. She assumed creative control of her fourth studio album, In the Zone released in 2003, which made her the only female artist of the Nielsen Soundscan era to have her first four albums debut at number one. After the release of her first greatest hits album Greatest Hits: My Prerogative, Spears experienced personal struggles and her career went under hiatus. This was until her fifth studio album, Blackout was released in 2007. Her sixth studio album, Circus was released in 2008, and also debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 albums chart with the hit single “Womanizer” which became Spears second single to peaked at number one in Billboard Hot 100 since her debut single, nearly 10 years later. In late 2009, Spears released The Singles Collection which includes her third number one hit single in the United States entitled “3″.

1. I always wanted to be a singer, it’s what I wanted to do since I was little. I’m doing it now and I couldn’t be happier.

2. I don’t like defining myself. I just am.

3. I don’t really have time to sit down and write. But when I think of a melody, I call up my answering machine and sing it, so I won’t forget it.

4. I don’t understand the whole dating thing. I know right off the bat if I’m interested in someone, and I don’t want them to waste their money on me and take me out to eat if I know I’m not interested in that person.

5. I know not everyone will like me, but this is who I am so if you don’t like it, tough!

6. I would like to be called an inspiration to people, not a role model – because I make mistakes like everybody else. When I’m offstage, I’m just like everybody else.

7. I’m so happy to be able to give kids the opportunity to learn about amazing world of dance and music that I’ve have been lucky enough to make such a big part of my own life.

8. Just because I look sexy on the cover of Rolling Stone doesn’t mean I’m naughty.

During the 1980s, Cosby produced and starred in what is considered to be one of the decade’s defining sitcoms, The Cosby Show, which aired eight seasons from 1984 to 1992, and is still seen in syndication. The sitcom highlighted the experiences and growth of an upper-middle-class African American family. He also produced the hit sitcom, A Different World, which became second to The Cosby Show in ratings. In the 1990s, he starred in Cosby, which aired from 1996 to 2000, and during the show’s last two seasons, hosted Kids Say the Darndest Things.

His good-natured, fatherly image has made him a popular personality and garnered him the nickname of “America’s Dad“. He has been a sought-after spokesman over the years, and has endorsed a number of products, including Jell-O pudding, Kodak film, Ford, Texas Instruments, and Coca-Cola, including New Coke. In 2002, scholar Molefi Kete Asante included him in his book, the 100 Greatest African Americans.

In 1976, Cosby earned a Doctor of Education degree from the University of Massachusetts. For his doctoral research, he wrote a dissertation entitled, “An Integration of the Visual Media Via ‘Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids’ Into the Elementary School Curriculum as a Teaching Aid and Vehicle to Achieve Increased Learning”.

———————————–
Sayings by Bill Cosby

1. Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you’re telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

2. In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

3. Nothing I’ve ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children.

4. People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what’s bitter and move on.

5. Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.

6. Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.

7. Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.

Although a major figure in the protectionist wing of the Conservative Party after 1844, Disraeli’s relations with the other leading figures in the party, particularly Lord Derby, the overall leader, were often strained. Not until the 1860s would Derby and Disraeli be on easy terms, and the latter’s succession of the former assured. From 1852 onwards, Disraeli’s career would also be marked by his often intense rivalry with William Gladstone, who eventually rose to become leader of the Liberal Party. In this feud, Disraeli was aided by his warm friendship with Queen Victoria, who came to detest Gladstone during the latter’s first premiership in the 1870s. In 1876 Disraeli was raised to the peerage as the Earl of Beaconsfield, capping nearly four decades in the House of Commons.

Before and during his political career, Disraeli was well-known as a literary and social figure, although his novels are not generally regarded as a part of the Victorian literary canon. He mainly wrote romances, of which Sybil and Vivian Grey are perhaps the best-known today. He is exceptional among British Prime Ministers for having gained equal social and political renown. He was twice successful as the Glasgow University Conservative Association’s candidate for Rector of the University, holding the post for two full terms between 1871 and 1877.

————————————–
Sayings by Benjamin Disraeli

1. Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

2. Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

3. Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.

4. I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

5. One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

6. The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Pascal was a mathematician of the first order. He helped create two major new areas of research. He wrote a significant treatise on the subject of projective geometry at the age of sixteen, and later corresponded with Pierre de Fermat on probability theory, strongly influencing the development of modern economics and social science. Following Galileo and Torricelli, in 1646 he refuted Aristotle’s followers who insisted that nature abhors a vacuum. His results caused many disputes before being accepted.

In 1646, he and his sister Jacqueline identified with the religious movement within Catholicism known by its detractors as Jansenism. His father died in 1651. Following a mystical experience in late 1654, he had his “second conversion”, abandoned his scientific work, and devoted himself to philosophy and theology. His two most famous works date from this period: the Lettres provinciales and the Pensées, the former set in the conflict between Jansenists and Jesuits. In this year, he also wrote an important treatise on the arithmetic of triangles. Between 1658 and 1659 he wrote on the cycloid and its use in calculating the volume of solids.

Pascal had poor health throughout his life and his death came just two months after his 39th birthday.

Russell led the British “revolt against idealism” in the early 1900s and is considered one of the founders of analytic philosophy along with his protégé Wittgenstein and his elder Frege. He co-authored, with A. N. Whitehead, Principia Mathematica, an attempt to ground mathematics on logic. His philosophical essay “On Denoting” has been considered a “paradigm of philosophy.” Both works have had a considerable influence on logic, mathematics, set theory, linguistics and analytic philosophy.

He was a prominent anti-war activist, championing free trade between nations and anti-imperialism. Russell was imprisoned for his pacifist activism during World War I, campaigned against Adolf Hitler, for nuclear disarmament, criticised Soviet totalitarianism and the United States of America’s involvement in the Vietnam War.

1. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

2. Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

3. The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

4. Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

5. We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

6. A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.

7. A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.

8. A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.

9. Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

10. Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory, you may envy Napoleon, but Napoleon envied Caesar, Caesar envied Alexander, and Alexander, I daresay, envied Hercules, who never existed.

11. A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.

12. Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

13. Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.

14. Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.

15. Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.

16. Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.

17. The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.

18. Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

19. War does not determine who is right – only who is left.

20. Boredom is … a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

21. Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

22. Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

23. Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.

24. One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.

25. To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

26. Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who’ll get the blame.

27. Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.

28. I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.

29. I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn’t wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.

30. I’ve made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I’m convinced of the opposite.

31. If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

32. If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

33. The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

34. There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.

1. A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.

2. All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.

3. All things appear and disappear because of the concurrence of causes and conditions. Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else.

4. All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?

5. An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.

6. An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

7. Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

8. Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

9. Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

10. Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.

11. Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

12. Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.

13. Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering. Some suffer too much, others too little.

14. Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

15. Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

16. However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

17. It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

18. It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

19. Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.

20. No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

21. Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

22. Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.

23. The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.

24. Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

25. To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one’s own in the midst of abundance.

26. Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

27. The tongue like a sharp knife… Kills without drawing blood.