“Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.
Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”
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Bruce Lee
“Do not pray for an easy life. Pray for a difficult on with the strength to endure it.”
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Bruce Lee
“It is not a shame to be knocked down by other people. The important thing is to ask when you're being knocked down, 'Why am I being knocked down?' If a person can reflect in this way, then there is hope for this person.”
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Bruce Lee
“Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.”
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Bruce Lee
“Self-knowledge involves relationship. To know oneself is to study one self in action with another person. Relationship is a process of self evaluation and self revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself - to be is to be related.”
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Bruce Lee
“A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.”
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Bruce Lee
“To know, but to be as though not knowing, is the height of wisdom.”
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Bruce Lee
“Everything you do, if not in a relaxed state will be done at a lesser level than you are proficient. Thus the tensed expert marksman will aim at a level less than his/her student.”
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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
“It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.”
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Bruce Lee
“The man who is really serious, with the urge to find out what truth is, has no style at all. He lives only in what is.”
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Bruce Lee
“Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.”
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Bruce Lee
“Preparation for tomorrow is hard work today.”
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Bruce Lee
“Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-conciousness. Freedom discovers man the moment he loses concern over what impression he is making or about to make.”
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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
