Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.
George LucasRead
It's okay to lose; just don't lose the lesson.
Interpretation
Losing can provide valuable lessons that contribute to personal growth.
This quote emphasizes the importance of learning from failures and setbacks rather than merely focusing on the act of losing itself. George Lucas suggests that every experience, especially negative ones, can be transformed into a lesson that enriches our understanding and capability moving forward.
In practice
In a motivational speech to students about resilience after a difficult exam.
Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.
When you are a beginning film maker you are desperate to survive. The most important thing in the end is survival and being able to get to your next picture.
The technology keeps moving forward, which makes it easier for the artists to tell their stories and paint the pictures they want.
I've come to the conclusion that mythology is really a form of archaeological psychology. Mythology gives you a sense of what a people believes, what they fear.
I wanted Yoda to be the traditional kind of character you find in fairy tales and mythology. And that character is usually a frog or a wizened old man on the side of the road. The hero is going down the road and meets this poor and insignificant person. The goal or lesson is for the hero to learn to respect everybody and to pay attention to the poorest person because that's where the key to his success will be.
So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause.
I'm in no position to hand down any advice," he said, "but there's a rule I follow when I don't know what to do." "A rule?" "If you have to choose between something that has form and something that doesn't, go for the one without form. That's my rule. Whenever I run into a wall I follow that rule, and it always works out. Even if it's hard going at the time.
Everyone lets the present moment slip by, then looks for it as though he thought it was somewhere else. No one seems to have noticed this fact. But grasping this firmly, one must pile experience upon experience. And once one has come to this understanding he will be a different person from that point on, though he may not always bare it in mind. When one understands this settling into single-mindedness well, his affairs will thin out.
Truth is the beginning of every good thing, both in heaven and_x000D_ _x000D_ on earth; and he who would be blessed and happy should be from_x000D_ _x000D_ the first a partaker of truth, for then he can be trusted.
Anger is energising. The opposite of anger is depression, which is anger turned inward.
The more specific we are, the more universal something can become. Life is in the details. If you generalize, it doesn't resonate. The specificity of it is what resonates.
Loving-kindness and compassion are the basis for wise, powerful, sometimes gentle, and sometimes fierce actions that can really make a difference - in our own lives and those of others.
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