“The key to liberation is within. — Each man binds himself; the fetters are ignorance, laziness, preoccupation with self, and fear. He must liberate himself, while accepting the fact that we are of this world, so that “In summer we sweat; in winter we shiver.”
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Bruce Lee
“All these years later, people still wonder about how Bruce died. I prefer to remember how he lived. ”
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Bruce Lee
“Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are the weeds that strange confidence.”
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Bruce Lee
“You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup. When you pour water in a bottle, it becomes the bottle. When you pour water in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can drip and it can crash. Become like water my friend.”
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Bruce Lee
“The essential quality of living life lies simply in the living.”
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Bruce Lee
“Using no way as a way, having no limitation as limitation.”
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Bruce Lee
“Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.”
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Bruce Lee
“Simplicity is the shortest distance between two points.”
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Bruce Lee
“To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.”
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Bruce Lee
“Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure the difficult one”
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Bruce Lee
“Time means a lot to me because you see I am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing.”
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Bruce Lee
“The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action.”
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Bruce Lee
“To spend time is to pass it in a specified manner. To waste time is to expend it thoughtlessly or carelessly. We all have time to either spend or waste and it is our decision what to do with it. But once passed, it is gone forever.”
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Bruce Lee
“To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion, to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never.”
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Bruce Lee
“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.”
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Bruce Lee
