Quotable Quotes Part II

[Visalakshi Ramani]

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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
(1940-1973)

This is wisdom beyond his age - considering the fact

that he died when he was 32!!! :thumb:

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

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
(1940-1973)

Life is like the yaanaip paathai in the temples situated on hills tops.
A small flight of steps and then a gradual slope - almost like a plateau.
It is much easier to climb on them than the flight of steps right up to the top!

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer

Bruce Lee
(1940-1973)

It is the interpretation by the brain that adds to our knowledge
whether what is being said is foolish or intelligent!

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Bruce Lee
(1940-1973)

Saying is different from Doing!

Knowing is different from Applying!!

Wishing is different from Achieving!!!

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who had practiced one kick 10,000 times

Bruce Lee
(1940-1973)

Practice makes perfect!!! :thumb:

அகல உழுவதிலும் ஆழ உழு!

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality

Bruce Lee
(1940-1973)

Oh these words sound like premonition! :tsk:

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

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

Bruce Lee
(1940-1973

I strongly believe this message I learned from the Flying mouse cartoon.
"Be yourself! Do your best and fortune will smile on you!"
But he who advocated against duplicating
is being duplicated even today - 4 decades after he departed!!!

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

நீராய்க் கசிந்துருகி நெட்டுயிர்த்து நின்றேனைப்
பாராத தென்னோ பகராய் பராபரமே.
தாயுமானவர்

பேச்சும், பிரசங்கங்களும் ஆத்மாவிடம் அழைத்துச் செல்லா!
பேருணர்ச்சியோடு ஆத்மாவை உள்ளுபவரே அதன் ஸ்வரூபத்தை உணர்வர்.
பரம் பொருளே! என் உள்ளத்தை உருக்கும் உணர்ச்சியாக நீ ஒளிர்வாயாகுக

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

நாயமத்மா ப3லஹீனே லப்4ய:

முண்டகோபனிஷத்

இந்த ஆத்மா பலஹீனனால் அடையப் படுவது அன்று!

 

[vgane]

As I was going through some additional material about Bruce Lee, I came across these quotes...Real gems of wisdom for his age..I cannot miss sharing this with the group

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect

Bruce Lee

(1940-1973)

 

[vgane]

If you truly love life, do not waste time;
because time is what life is made of

Bruce Lee

(1940-1973)

 

[vgane]

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind

Bruce Lee

(1940-1973)

 

[vgane]

As you think, so shall you become

Bruce Lee

(1940-1973)

 

[vgane]

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities

Bruce Lee

(1940-1973)

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

As I was going through some additional material about Bruce Lee, I came across these quotes...Real gems of wisdom for his age..I cannot miss sharing this with the group

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect

Bruce Lee

(1940-1973)

Character is what WE ARE!

Reputation is what the others THINK we are!!

So reputation is WHAT we project to be and

character is what we really are!!!

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

If you truly love life, do not waste time;
because time is what life is made of

Bruce Lee

(1940-1973)

Tiny seconds add up to make one's lifespan

just like tiny drops of water make an ocean.

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind

Bruce Lee

(1940-1973)

But bending WITHOUT stooping low, is an art in itself! :thumb:

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind

Bruce Lee

(1940-1973)

Explains pretty well why the stiff upper lips
(with or without mustache) are the ones to disappear
while the softer and simpler people survive the storms.

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

As you think, so shall you become

Bruce Lee

(1940-1973)

This IS Indian philosophy.
We become what we eat!
We become what we think!!
We become what we want to become!!!

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities

Bruce Lee

(1940-1973)

Circumstances have opportunities concealed in them.
The bright mind perceives the opportunity
while the dull one perceives the difficulty.

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

அஞ்சுவது யாதொன்றும் இல்லை
அஞ்ச வருவதும் இல்லை.
அப்பர்

சூரியன் இருக்கும் போது இருளுக்கு இடம் இல்லை.
இறைவனைச் சார்ந்து இருக்கும்போது அச்சம் இல்லை

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

கருவி கரணங்கள் ஓய்ந்த
தொண்டர்களிடத்திலோ நீ வீற்றிருப்பது?
தாயுமானவர்

மனம் தூய்மை அடையும் போது தியானம் தானே வந்து அமைகிறது.
தியானம் செய்பவன் தெய்வ சந்நிதியில் இருக்கிறான்
தியானம் மனதைப் புதுப்பிக்கிறது. தூய்மை ஆக்குகிறது.
நீருக்குள்ளே மீன் இருப்பதை போல, நான் தியானத்தில்
இருந்து, உன்னை நெருங்கி வர அருள்புரிவாய் இறைவா!

 

[vgane]

I will cover the famous quotes of Rasipuram Krishnaswamy Iyer Narayanaswamy aka R.K.Narayan…He is a prolific Indian writer in English..His famous books include Financial Expert, semi autobiographical trilogy of “Swamy and Friends”, The Bachelor of Arts and English Teacher and “The Guide” which won him a Sahitya Academy Award which was also adapted for a Hindi film
Life is about making right things and going on..
R.K.Narayan, Malgudi Days
(1906-2001)

 

[vgane]

The difference between a simpleton and an intelligent man, according to the man who is convinced that he is of the latter category, is that the former wholeheartedly accepts all things that he sees and hears while the latter never admits anything except after a most searching scrutiny. He imagines his intelligence to be a sieve of closely woven mesh through which nothing but the finest can pass
I returned from the village. The house seemed unbearably dull. But I bore it. "There is no escape from loneliness and separation...." I told myself often. "Wife, child, brothers, parents, friends.... We come together only to go apart again. It is one continuous movement. They move away from us as we move away from them. The law of life can't be avoided. The law comes into operation the moment we detach ourselves from our mother's womb. All struggle and misery in life is due to our attempt to arrest this law or get away from it or in allowing ourselves to be hurt by it. The fact must be recognized. A profound unmitigated loneliness is the only truth of life. All else is false. My mother got away from her parents, my sisters from our house, I and my brother away from each other, my wife was torn away from me, my daughter is going away with my mother, my father has gone away from his father, my earliest friends - where are they? They scatter apart like the droplets of a waterspray. The law of life. No sense in battling against it...." Thus I reconciled myself to this separation with less struggle than before.”

R.K.Narayan, The English Teacher

(1906-2001)

 

[vgane]

This education has reduced us to a nation of morons; we were strangers to our own culture and camp followers of another culture, feeding on leavings and garbage . . . What about our own roots? . . . I am up against the system, the whole method and approach of a system of education which makes us morons, cultural morons, but efficient clerks for all your business and administration offices
R.K.Narayan, The English Teacher

(1906-2001)