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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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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.
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Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.
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Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.
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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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An instructor should exemplify the things he seeks to teach. It will be of great advantage if you yourself can do all you ask of your students and more.
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Seek to understand the root. — It is futile to argue as to which single leaf, which design of branch, or which attractive flower you like; when you understand the root, you understand all its blossoming.
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Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are the weeds that strange confidence.
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Many people dedicate their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like, rather than actualizing themselves. This difference between self-actualization and self-image actualization is very important. Most people live only for their image
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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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More and more I believe in the fact that you have two hands and two legs, and the thing is how to make good use of yourself - and that's about it.
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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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Voidness is that which stands right in the middle between this and that. The void is all-inclusive; having no opposite, there is nothing which it excludes or opposes. The all illuminating light shines and is beyond the movement of the opposites.
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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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'What is' is more important than 'what should be.' Too many people are looking at 'what is' from a position of thinking 'what should be'.
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I have the absolute confidence not to be number two, but then I have enough sense to realize that there can be no number one.
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It is useless to try to stir the dirt Out of the muddy water, As it will become murkier. But leave it alone, And if it should be cleared; It will become clear by itself.
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To live is to express, and to express you have to create. Creation is never merely repetition. To live is to express oneself freely in creation.
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I have always been a martial artist by choice, an actor by profession, but above all, am actualising myself to be an artist of life.
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People try to hold onto the sameness. This holding onto prevents growth.
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Never waste energy on worries or negative thoughts, all problems are brought into existence -drop them.
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Prosperity is apt to prevent us from examining our conduct; but adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is beneficial to us.
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The timeless moment. — The "moment" has no yesterday or tomorrow. It is not the result of thought and therefore has no time.
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In order to control myself I must first accept myself by going with and not against my nature.
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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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Guilt is anger directed at ourselves - at what we did or did not do. Resentment is anger directed at others - at what they did or did not do.
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Born:
November 27, 1940
Died:
July 20, 1973
(aged 32)
Bio:
Bruce Lee was a Hong Kong American martial artist, action film actor, martial arts instructor, philosopher, filmmaker, and the founder of Jeet Kune Do. Lee was the son of Cantonese opera star Lee Hoi-Chuen.
Known for:
Enter the Dragon (1973)
Fist of Fury (1972)
The Way of the Dragon (1972)
The Big Boss (1971)
The Green Hornet (1966 – 1967)
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