“The essential quality of living life lies simply in the living.”
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Bruce Lee
“The primary reality is not what I think, but that I live, for those also live who do not think. Although this living may not be a real living. God! What contradictions when we seek to join in wedlock life and reason!”
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Bruce Lee
“To express oneself honestly, not lying to oneself—that, my friend, is very hard to do.”
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Bruce Lee
“showing off is the fools's idea of glory.”
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Bruce Lee
“All knowledge leads to self-knowledge.”
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Bruce Lee
“Don't think. FEEL. It's like a finger pointing at the moon. Do not concentrate on the finger, or you will miss all of the heavenly glory.”
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Bruce Lee
“You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.”
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Bruce Lee
“The ideal is unnatural naturalness, or natural unnaturalness. I mean it is a combination of both.
I mean here is natural instinct and here is control. You are to combine the two in harmony.
Not if you have one to the extreme, you'll be very unscientific.
If you have another to the extreme, you become, all of a sudden, a mechanical man
No longer a human being.
It is a successful combination of both.
That way it is a process of continuing growth.
Be water, my friend.”
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Bruce Lee
“...we have more faith in what we imitate than in what we originate. We cannot derive a sense of absolute certitude from anything which has its roots in us. The most poignant sense of insecurity comes from standing alone and we are not alone when we imitate. It is thus with most of us; we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay.”
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Bruce Lee
“Having totality means being capable of following "what is," because "what is" is constantly moving and constantly changing. If one is anchored to a particular view, one will not be able to follow the swift movement of "what is.”
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Bruce Lee
“physical or anything else, it’ll spread over into the rest of your life.”
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Bruce Lee
“The idea is that flowing water never goes stale, so just keep on flowing.”
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Bruce Lee
“A conditioned mind is never a free mind.”
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Bruce Lee
“Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.”
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Bruce Lee
“If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done. Make at least one definite move daily toward you goal.”
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Bruce Lee
