“Real living is living for others.”
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Bruce Lee
“In order to control myself I must first accept myself by going with and not against my nature.”
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Bruce Lee
“...we have more faith in what we imitate than in what we originate. We cannot derive a sense of absolute certitude from anything which has its roots in us. The most poignant sense of insecurity comes from standing alone and we are not alone when we imitate. It is thus with most of us; we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay.”
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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
“Be self aware, rather than a repetitious robot”
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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
“Preparation for tomorrow is hard work today.”
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Bruce Lee
“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.”
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Bruce Lee
“Never try to copy a successful personality.”
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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
“To see a thing uncolored by one’s own personal preferences and desires is to see it in its own pristine simplicity.”
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Bruce Lee
“Self-knowledge involves relationship. To know oneself is to study one self in action with another person. Relationship is a process of self evaluation and self revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself - to be is to be related.”
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Bruce Lee
“Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.”
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Bruce Lee
“Self-actualization is the important thing. And my personal message to people is that I hope they will go toward self-actualization rather than self-image actualization. I hope that they will search within themselves for honest self-expression. — Bruce Lee”
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Bruce Lee
“The possession of anything begins in the mind.”
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Bruce Lee
