“Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.”
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Bruce Lee
“The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”
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Bruce Lee
“Be self aware, rather than a repetitious robot”
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Bruce Lee
“The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.”
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Bruce Lee
“Bring the mind into sharp focus and make it alert so that it can immediately intuit truth, which is everywhere. The mind must be emancipated from old habits, prejudices, restrictive thought processes and even ordinary thought itself.”
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Bruce Lee
“Be like water making its way through crack.
Do not be assertive but adjust to the object and you shall find a way round it or through it.
If nothing within you stays rigid outward thigs will disclose themselves.
Moving be like water.
Still be like a mirror.
Respond like an echo.”
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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 stillness in stillness is not the real stillness; only when there is stillness in movement does the universal rhythm manifest.”
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Bruce Lee
“Preparation for tomorrow is hard work today.”
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Bruce Lee
“To spend time is to pass it in a specified manner. To waste time is to expend it thoughtlessly or carelessly. We all have time to either spend or waste and it is our decision what to do with it. But once passed, it is gone forever.”
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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
“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
“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
“Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.”
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Bruce Lee
“There is “what is” only when there is no comparing and to live with “what is” is to be peaceful.”
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Bruce Lee
