“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
“In order to control myself I must first accept myself by going with and not against my nature.”
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Bruce Lee
“Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind
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Bruce Lee
“I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.”
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Bruce Lee
“There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you.”
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Bruce Lee
“Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.”
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Bruce Lee
“Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.”
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Bruce Lee
“Any technique, however worthy and desirable, becomes a disease, when the mind is obsessed with it.”
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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
“To see a thing uncolored by one’s own personal preferences and desires is to see it in its own pristine simplicity.”
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Bruce Lee
“There is no mystery about my style. My movements are simple, direct and non-classical. The extraordinary part of it lies in its simplicity. Every movement in Jeet Kune-Do is being so of itself. There is nothing artificial about it. I always believe that the easy way is the right way.”
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Bruce Lee
“Knowledge earns you power, character earns you respect.”
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Bruce Lee
“Only the self-sufficient stand alone - most people follow the crowd and imitate.”
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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
