“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.”
―
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
“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.”
―
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.”
―
Bruce Lee
“The essential quality of living life lies simply in the living.”
―
Bruce Lee
“Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.”
―
Bruce Lee
“The doubters said,
"Man can not fly,"
The doers said,
"Maybe, but we'll try,"
And finally soared
In the morning glow
While non-believers
Watched from below.”
―
Bruce Lee
“If you think a thing is impossible,you'll only make it impossible.”
―
Bruce Lee
“Boards, don't hit back. ~Bruce Lee”
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Bruce Lee
“Only the self-sufficient stand alone - most people follow the crowd and imitate.”
―
Bruce Lee
“To understand techniques, you must learn that they contain a lot of condensed movement.”
―
Bruce Lee
“Remember no man is really defeated unless he is discouraged.”
―
Bruce Lee
“Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you. I'll not willingly offend, nor be easily offended.”
―
Bruce Lee
“Do not pray for an easy life. Pray for a difficult on with the strength to endure it.”
―
Bruce Lee
“All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.”
―
Bruce Lee
