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Life Quotes by Bruce Lee

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Lee compares a flexible life to water that takes the shape of its container, urging us to be formless. He stresses that life’s meaning lies in living it, not in squeezing it into rigid systems. He also sees art as a direct route to the absolute and the essence of human experience.

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False teachers of the Way of life use flowery words.

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Real living is living for others.

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Life is wide, limitless. There is no border, no frontier.

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Remember, Life is a journey, not a destination.

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Take what's useful, discard what is not.

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If you want to be immortal live a life worth remembering

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“In Life There are No Limits, Only Plateaus.”

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In life, what more can you ask for than to be real?

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If you knew you had to fight for your life tomorrow, would you change your training today?

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Open yourself and flow, my friend. Flow in the total openness of the living moment.

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If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

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Flow in the living moment - We are always in a process of becoming and nothing is fixed.

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“Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. Be water, my friend.”

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You will never get any more out of this life than you expect.

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There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

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I've come to understand that life is best lived, not conceptualized.

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Time means a lot to me because, you see, I, too, am also a learner and am often lost in the joy…

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Zen is not “attained” by mirror-wiping mediation, but by “self-forgetfulness in the existential 'present' of life here and now.” We do not…

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Believe me that in every big thing or achievement there are always obstacles-big or small- and the reaction one shows to such…

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If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your…

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Life is never stagnation. It is constant movement, un-rhythmic movement, as we as constant change. Things live by moving and gain strength…

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It is the man that has nothing to lose or is willing to lose everything to beat you that I am afraid…

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Are you going to let the obstacles in your life be stumbling blocks or stepping stones? Choose the positive. You are the…

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I did what I came here to do. What I've done I've done with sincerity and to the best of my ability.…

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Life is better lived than conceptualized. — This writing can be less demanding should I allow myself to indulge in the usual…

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“You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup. When you pour water…

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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…

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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;…

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Success only means doing something sincerely and wholeheartedly. I think life is a process. Through the ages, the end of heroes is…

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Life is an ever-flowing process and somewhere on the path some unpleasant things will pop up - it might leave a scar,…

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I don't know what is the meaning of death, but I am not afraid to die - and I go on, non-stop,…

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Art is the way to the absolute and to the essence of human life. The aim of art is not the one-sided…

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The biggest adversary in our life is ourselves. We are what we are, in a sense, because of the dominating thoughts we…

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How can there be methods and systems to arrive at something that is living? To that which is static, fixed, dead, there…

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If one loves, one need not have an ideology of love.

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Live a life worth remembering.

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The meaning of life is that it is to be lived.

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Instead of dedicating your life to actualize a concept of what you should be like, actualize yourself.

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“Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure the difficult one”

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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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The usefulness of the cup is its emptiness.

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Be a practical dreamer backed by action.

In order to taste my cup of water you must first empty your cup.

Truth comes when your mind and heart are purged of all sense of striving and you are no longer trying to become somebody; it…

A person cannot forget someone who is good to them.

The highest art is no art. The highest form is no form

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I hope martial artists are more interested in the root of martial arts and not the different decorative branches, flowers or leaves. It is…

Art lives where absolute freedom is, because where it is not, there can be no creativity.