“Absorb what is useful, discard what is useless and add what is specifically your own”
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Bruce Lee
“Boards, don't hit back. ~Bruce Lee”
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Bruce Lee
“I wish neither to possess nor to be possessed. I no longer covet 'paradise'. More important, I no longer fear 'hell'.
The medicine for my suffering I had within me from the very beginning but I did not take it. My ailment came from within myself, but I did not observe it, until this moment.
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
“To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.”
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Bruce Lee
“When the ultimate perfection is attained, the body and limbs perform by themselves what is assigned to them to do with no interference from the mind.
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Bruce Lee
“The perfect way is only difficult for those who pick and choose. Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear. Make a hairbreadth difference and heaven and earth are set apart; if you want the truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against. The struggle between “for” and “against” is the mind’s worst disease.”
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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
“The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.”
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Bruce Lee
“Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.”
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Bruce Lee
“If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.”
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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. Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water. Now you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup; You put water into a bottle 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
“Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.”
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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
“In the middle of chaos lies opportunity
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Bruce Lee
