“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
“My style? You can call it the art of fighting without fighting.”
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Bruce Lee
“Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later the man who wins, is the man who thinks he can.”
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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
“The disease of philosophy. - Philosophy is itself the disease for which it pretends to be the cure: the wise man does not pursue wisdom but lives his life, and therein precisely does his wisdom lie.”
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Bruce Lee
“Put 'going the extra mile' to work as part of one's daily habit.”
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Bruce Lee
“The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.”
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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
“Living exists when life lives through us … life is a living now!”
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Bruce Lee
“Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.”
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Bruce Lee
“A good fight should be like a small play, but played seriously.”
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Bruce Lee
“I'm moving and not moving at all. I'm like the moon underneath the waves that ever go on rolling and rocking. It is not, "I am doing this," but rather, an inner realization that "this is happening through me," or "it is doing this for me." The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action.”
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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
“Effort within the mind further limits the mind, because effort implies struggle towards a goal and when you have a goal, a purpose, an end in view, you have placed a limit on the mind.”
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Bruce Lee
“Learn the principles, abide by the principles, and then dissolve the principles.”
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Bruce Lee
