“To doubt is to think, and thought is the only thing in the universe whose existence cannot be denied, because to deny is to think.”
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Bruce Lee
“Everything you do, if not in a relaxed state will be done at a lesser level than you are proficient. Thus the tensed expert marksman will aim at a level less than his/her student.”
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Bruce Lee
“All these years later, people still wonder about how Bruce died. I prefer to remember how he lived. ”
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Bruce Lee
“A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.”
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Bruce Lee
“All knowledge leads to self-knowledge.”
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Bruce Lee
“The medicine for my suffering I had within me from the very beginning, but I did not take it. My ailment came from within myself, but I did not observe it until this moment. Now I see that I will never find the light unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel.”
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Bruce Lee
“Experiencing is believing. - A fat belly cannot believe that such a thing as hunger exists.”
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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
“Living exists when life lives through us … life is a living now!”
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Bruce Lee
“Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.
Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water my friend.”
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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
“Because one does not want to be disturbed, to be made uncertain, he establishes a pattern of conduct, of thought, a pattern of relationship to man etc. Then he becomes a slave to the patter and takes the pattern to be the real thing.”
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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
“You cannot force the Now. — But can you neither 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
