“The More we value things, the less we value ourselves”
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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
“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 hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.”
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Bruce Lee
“In Buddhism, there is no place for using effort. Just be ordinary and nothing special. Eat your food, move your bowels, pass water and when you're tired go and lie down. The ignorant will laugh at me, but the wise will understand.”
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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
“We have great work ahead of us, and it needs devotion and much, much energy. To grow, to discover, we need involvement, which is something I experience every day — sometimes good, sometimes frustrating. No matter what, you must let your inner light guide you out of the darkness.”
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Bruce Lee
“You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.”
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Bruce Lee
“Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.”
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Bruce Lee
“Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round 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
“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
“A teacher is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for himself.”
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Bruce Lee
“The path of self-realisation is the most difficult. -We acquire a sense of worth either by realising our talents, or by keeping busy, or by identifying ourselves with something apart from us - be it a cause, a leader, a group, possessions, and the like. Of the three, the path of self-realisation is the most difficult. It is taken when other avenues to a sense of worth are more or less blocked.”
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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
“If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo. ”
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Bruce Lee
