“Now I see that I will never find the light
Unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel,
Consuming myself.”
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Bruce Lee
“Forget about winning and losing; forget about pride and pain. Let your opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let him smash into your flesh and you fracture his bones; let him fracture your bones and you take his life! Do not be concerned with escaping safely- lay your life before him!!”
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Bruce Lee
“To understand techniques, you must learn that they contain a lot of condensed movement.”
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Bruce Lee
“If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.”
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Bruce Lee
“As you think, so shall you become.”
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Bruce Lee
“Real living is living for others.”
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Bruce Lee
“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.”
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Bruce Lee
“The aim of education. — Education: to discover but not merely to imitate. Learning techniques without inward experiencing can only lead to superficiality.”
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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
“But neither can you 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
“Obey the principles without being bound by them.”
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Bruce Lee
“The enemy of development is this pain phobia - the unwillingness to do a tiny bit of suffering.”
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Bruce Lee
“Not being tense but ready.
Not thinking but not dreaming.
Not being set but flexible.
Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement.
It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come.”
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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
“Los errores son siempre perdonables, si se tiene la valentía de admitirlos.”
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Bruce Lee
