“In Buddhism, there is no place for using effort. Just be ordinary and nothing special. Eat your food, move your bowels, pass water and when you're tired go and lie down. The ignorant will laugh at me, but the wise will understand.”
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Bruce Lee
“Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo.”
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Bruce Lee
“Never try to copy a successful personality.”
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Bruce Lee
“Emotion can be the enemy, if you give into your emotion, you lose yourself. You must be at one with your emotions, because the body always follows the mind.”
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Bruce Lee
“Using no way as way. Having no limitation as your only limitation.”
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Bruce Lee
“Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successfull personality and duplicate it.”
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Bruce Lee
“You cannot force the Now. — But can you neither condemn nor justify and yet be extraordinarily alive as you walk on? You can never invite the wind, but you must leave the window open.”
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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
“Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.”
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Bruce Lee
“Preparation for tomorrow is hard work today.”
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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
“To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.”
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Bruce Lee
“Be like water making its way through crack.
Do not be assertive but adjust to the object and you shall find a way round it or through it.
If nothing within you stays rigid outward thigs will disclose themselves.
Moving be like water.
Still be like a mirror.
Respond like an echo.”
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Bruce Lee
“If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.”
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Bruce Lee
“My style? You can call it the art of fighting without fighting.”
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Bruce Lee
