Bruce Lee Quotes
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Simplicity is the key to brilliance.
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Emptiness the starting point. - In order to taste my cup of water you must first empty your cup. My friend, drop all your preconceived and fixed ideas and be neutral. Do you know why this cup is useful? Because it is empty.
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Forget about winning and losing; forget about pride and pain. Let your opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let him smash into your flesh and you fracture his bones; let him fracture your bones and you take his life. Do not be concerned with escaping safely - lay your life before him.
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Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.
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Using no way as way; Having no limitation as limitation.
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Walk on.
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Don't think, feel....it is like a finger pointing a way to the moon. Don't concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory!
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True thusness is without defiling thought; it cannot be known through conception and thought.
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What we are after is the ROOT and not the branches. The root is the real knowledge; the branches are surface knowledge. Real knowledge breeds 'body feel' and personal expression; surface knowledge breeds mechanical conditioning and imposing limitation and squelches creativity.
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Neither. I think of myself as a human being.
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Reality is apparent when one ceases to compare. - There is 'what is' only when there is no comparison at all, and to live with what is, is to be peaceful.
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Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.
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Nowadays you don't go around on the street kicking people, punching people - because if you do (makes gun shape with hand), well that's it - I don't care how good you are.
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The Moment is freedom. - I couldn't live by a rigid schedule. I try to live freely from moment to moment, letting things happen and adjusting to them.
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None whatsoever.
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Concepts vs. self-actualization. - Instead of dedicating your life to actualize a concept of what you should be like, ACTUALIZE YOURSELF. The process of maturing does not mean to become a captive of conceptualization. It is to come to the realization of what lies in our innermost selves.
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When we hold to the core, the opposite sides are the same if they are seen from the center of the moving circle. I do not experience; I am experience. I am not the subject of experience; I am that experience. I am awareness. Nothing else can be I or can exist.
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Thoughts are things.
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Make at least one definite move daily toward your goal.
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When you're talking about fighting, as it is, with no rules, well then, baby you'd better train every part of your body!
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Meaning is found in relationship. - Meaning is the relationship of the foreground figure to the background.
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Balance your thoughts with action. - If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.
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There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you. A man must constantly exceed his level.
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The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a pattern of systems.