“Never try to copy a successful personality.”
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Bruce Lee
“But neither can you condemn nor justify and yet be extraordinarily alive as you walk on.
You can never invite the wind but you must leave the window open.”
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Bruce Lee
“The key to liberation is within. — Each man binds himself; the fetters are ignorance, laziness, preoccupation with self, and fear. He must liberate himself, while accepting the fact that we are of this world, so that “In summer we sweat; in winter we shiver.”
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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
“The man who is really serious, with the urge to find out what truth is, has no style at all. He lives only in what is.”
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Bruce Lee
“I fear not the man that can throw a thousand different kicks once, but the man who can throw one kick a thousand times.”
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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 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
“Time means a lot to me because you see I am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing.”
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Bruce Lee
“Pliability is life; rigidity is death, whether one speaks of man’s body, his mind, or his spirit.”
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Bruce Lee
“Satori - in the awakening from a dream. Awakening and self-realization and seeing into one's own being - these are synonymous.”
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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
“Having totality means being capable of following "what is," because "what is" is constantly moving and constantly changing. If one is anchored to a particular view, one will not be able to follow the swift movement of "what is.”
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Bruce Lee
“Don't think. FEEL. It's like a finger pointing at the moon. Do not concentrate on the finger, or you will miss all of the heavenly glory.”
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Bruce Lee
“I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.”
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Bruce Lee
