Bruce Lipton Quotes

If I brought you down to the size of an individual cell so that you could see your body from that perspective, it would offer a whole new view of the world. When you looked back at yourself from that perspective you would not see yourself as a single entity. You would see yourself as a bustling community of more than 50 trillion individual cells.

Every cell is a triumph of natural selection, and we’re made of trillions of cells. Within us, is a little universe.

A cell is a complex structure, with its investing membrane, nucleus, and nucleolus.

Living is a compromise, between doing what you want and doing what other people want.

You contain a trillion copies of a large, textual document written in a highly accurate, digital code, each copy as voluminous as a substantial book. I'm talking, of course, of the DNA in your cells.

A cell is regarded as the true biological atom.

People always say there is competition in nature, but I think that because we are human, it's not only competition. Because we are human we have something other than competition - sharing, helping others, or being oneself. Competition is really kind of ugly.

Being single is about celebrating and appreciating your own space that you're in. I couldn't have lived alone before. I always needed someone to share my space but now I like being by myself. If I want to be with people then I see my friends; if I want a date then I'll have one.

We people of the world need to find ways to get to know one another - for then we will recognize that our likenesses are so much greater than our differences, however great our differences may seem. Every cell, every human being, is of equal importance and has work to do in this world

There are something like 18 billion cells in the brain alone. There are no two brains alike; there are no two hands alike; there are no two human beings alike. You can take your instructions and your guidance from others, but you must find your own path.

People may be said to resemble the pieces of a puzzle, each unique, yet each essential to bring out a complete picture.

The very essence of democracy is the absolute faith that while people must cooperate, the first function of democracy, its peculiar gift, is to develop each individual into everything that he might be.

Rather than look at a marriage as two people morphing into one thing, you could see two individuals who are choosing to form a partnership.

Divisiveness is not good for the people.

It seems unfortunate that strong people are usually so disagreeable and overbearing that no one cares for them. In fact, to be different from your fellow creatures is always a misfortune.

I take "We, the People" seriously because I don't know how we build a civilization without reciprocity.

How seriously can I take myself? I'm just one of six billion people, right?

I don't really hang out with people. I like to be by myself. In fact, I've been arrested a few times because I like to walk around at two or three in the morning, looking at shop windows. The cops take me to the station and fingerprint me. But I wouldn't call that hanging out.

If you don't feel free and be yourself, you can't connect. Find people who accept your quirks. They'll heal your soul.

In high school, people are sometimes encouraged to be like everyone else. What's so great about this show is that these kids are weird and different and over-achievers. They know what they want and they're going after it. They're weird and they don't deny it. That's what makes it special.

I feel like people always wanna define me and I don’t wanna be defined.

Trying to create a sense of common interest does involve getting people actually to work together on common problems. It can't be created by law, that's why I disagree with the liberal approach becuase it's essentially a lawyer's approach.

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. Originality is deliberate and forced, and partakes of the nature of a protest. A society which gives unlimited freedom to the individual, more often than not attains a disconcerting sameness.

My mom is 70, and she's still wearing the things she wore in the 80s. I appreciate people like that, who know who they are and what they like to wear - and have fun with it. Like, you can see that they enjoy expressing themselves.