As quoted in Bruce Lee : Artist of Life (1999) edited by John R. Little, p. 192
Context: Forget about winning and losing; forget about pride and pain. Let your opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let him smash into your flesh and you fracture his bones; let him fracture your bones and you take his life. Do not be concerned with escaping safely — lay your life before him.
As quoted in Bruce Lee: Artist of Life (1999) edited by John R. Little, p. 192
“Stop it.
Do not feel safe with him. The Stockholm Syndrome is not your friend.”
Source: Lover Unbound
Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Seventh Son (1987), Chapter 5.
Wording in Ideas and Opinions: Everything that the human race has done and thought is concerned with the satisfaction of deeply felt needs and the assuagement of pain. One has to keep this constantly in mind if one wishes to understand spiritual movements and their development. Feeling and longing are the motive force behind all human endeavor and human creation, in however exalted a guise the latter may present themselves to us.
1930s, Religion and Science (1930)
Context: Everything that men do or think concerns the satisfaction of the needs they feel or the escape from pain. This must be kept in mind when we seek to understand spiritual or intellectual movements and the way in which they develop. For feelings and longings are the motive forces of all human striving and productivity—however nobly these latter may display themselves to us.
[Baqir Sharīf al-Qurashi, The life of Imam Muhammad al-Jawad, Wonderful Maxims and Arts, 2005]
“Open your heart and your sad feelings to Him and the safe people He brings to you.”
Where Is God (2009, Thomas Nelson publishers)
“Your life is inescapable. Unless you decide to escape it.”
Every You, Every Me
Source: Al-Tabari, Vol. 9, p. 42
“Before you can escape from your burrow you must know you are trapped. Then there's a chance.”
Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)
