Ed Lee Quotes

Do not pray for an easy life. Pray for a difficult on with the strength to endure it.

He's firmly, irrevocably, unambiguously convinced that you're somebody worth dying for.

Relationship is understanding. It is a process of self-revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself -- to be is to be related.

In Life There are No Limits, Only Plateaus.

Emotion can be the enemy, if you give into your emotion, you lose yourself. You must be at one with your emotions, because the body always follows the mind.

All I can tell you is that at the end, there's nothing left but love.

Long after you have reached the end of your natural span, part of you will dwell within me . . . as I shall be in you to the last of your days and even after.

Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-conciousness. Freedom discovers man the moment he loses concern over what impression he is making or about to make.

Remember my words: Be truthful, be kind to one another, and you will attain peace. We will meet again in another life.

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

Always be yourself and have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and try to duplicate it.

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

Sacrifice: That's what makes our mosaic so beautiful and rich.

Ang great love mo, hindi mo makakatuluyan. Ang makakatuluyan mo ay yung correct love.

Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.

To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the tortureOf restlessness and vague desire--It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.

Atticus, he was real nice.""Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.

In my opinion, our health care system has failed when a doctor fails to treat an illness that is treatable.

It is culture that is the bully."

The road ahead is long and there will be many setbacks. Success is not assured… but the price of failure has never been this high.

Don’t talk like that, Dill, ” said Aunt Alexandra. “It’s not becoming to a child. It’s – cynical.”“I ain’t cynical, Miss Alexandra. Tellin’ the truth’s not cynical, is it?”“The way you tell it, it is.

I am right. I'm always right. One time I thought I was wrong, I found out I was right.

Forbidden things - my God, I'm drawn to them like a moth to a flame.

Her eyes, full of ancient, sacred wisdom. Her bones, deposits of inherited bravery. She is a proud descendant of strong, courageous women who went to the stakes fighting for their truths.

Be with someone who willingly runs in the storm with you, not someone who cowers away because of turbulent winds.

Never, never, never, on cross-examination ask a witness a question you don't already know the answer to.

Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.

Write because you love to write.

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

Money can't buy happiness but it can buy a huge yacht that sails right next to it.

The bitterness of joy lies in the knowledge that it cannot last. Nor should joy last beyond a certain season, for, after that season, even joy would become merely habit.

If I know that I can do something that makes me happy, why do I allow myself to get so depressed?

Our hearts are bound together, ' he said, 'and I am free to decide who I love. And what I want. Nothing - not the pressure of my family, or what anyone else thinks - matters.

How much time do I get in exchange for that rose?”For the rose, a short engagement. For the speech, you get a lifetime.”I can live with that, ” he said, and kissed her.

True vice, my lady, would frighten us all, if it did not wear the mask of virtue. (p.56)

She’s into authentic hearts and mind shattering conversations. Good music and quirky art. Weirdness and eccentric people. Love, kindness and genuine souls. She’s into all this and so much more.

Do you have any idea how frightening it is to care for someone who dreams? They infect you with their optimism. And soon you start to dream together. You begin to dare to hope.

You deny them hope... You are telling them that Jesus loves them, but not much.

Death seemed to lose its terrors and to borrow a grace and dignity in sublime keeping with the life that was ebbing away.

I curse the heavens for letting the stars fall, I curse myself for not being there to catch them.

When we love something we never give up.

She had this way of always finding the good and believing in everything despite all she had seen.

Where death follows, there’s life. When darkness surrounds you in a world of chaos, search and you’ll eventually find the light.

She's a dark-eyed, red flame, bohemian hurricane.

I swear that girl was born with a pen in her hand, the moon in her hair and stars in her soul.

You must possess Passion along with having a very strong no-fear spiritual belief in order to gain true success in life.

For the moon never beams without bringing me dreamsOf the beautiful Annabel Lee

I am that last, thatfinal thing, the bodyin a white sheet listening,

A door jumpsout from shadows, then jumps away. Thisis what I've come to find:the back door, unlatched.Tooled by insular wind, itslams and slamswithout meaningto and without meaning.

My tongue remembers your wounded flavor.The vein in my neckadores you. A swordstands up between my hips, my hidden fleece sends forth its scent of human oil.