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Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

~ Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee Fierce Forever Love Love Undying Love

You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup. When you pour water in a bottle, it becomes the bottle. When you pour water in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can drip and it can crash. Become like water my friend.

~ Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee Adaptation Life

Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.

~ Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee Advice Bruce Lee Inspirational

Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.

~ Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee Bruce Lee Determined Inspirational Spiritual

It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.

~ Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee Inspirational Motivation Priorities Simplicity Wisdom

Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around 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.

~ Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee Bruce Lee Martial Arts Philosophy Politics

Bring the mind into sharp focus and make it alert so that it can immediately intuit truth, which is everywhere. The mind must be emancipated from old habits, prejudices, restrictive thought processes and even ordinary thought itself.

~ Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee Body Emancipation Focus Life Mind Mind Body Spirit Philosophy Prejudices Spirit Truth

Set patterns, incapable of adaptability, of pliability, only offer a better cage. Truth is outside of all patterns.

~ Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee Adaptability Cage Patterns Truth

I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.

~ Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee Expectations Individuality Peer Pressure Wisdom

Don't fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

~ Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee Fear Motivational

The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.

~ Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee Motivational Thinking

I am not afraid of a person who knows 10000 kicks. But I am afraid of a person who knows one kick but practices it for 10000 times.

~ Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee Science

True mastery transcends any particular art. It stems from mastery of oneself--the ability, developed through self-discipline, to be calm, fully aware, and completely in tune with oneself and the surroundings. Then, and only then, can a person know himself.

~ Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee Art Mastery Oneself Self Discipline Self Knowledge

Effort within the mind further limits the mind, because effort implies struggle towards a goal and when you have a goal, a purpose, an end in view, you have placed a limit on the mind.

~ Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee Goals In Life Limitations Mind Struggle

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

~ Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee Best Advice Bruce Lee Inspirational Jeet Kune Do Life Mind Philosophy Water

A conditioned mind is never a free mind.

~ Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee Freedom Freedom Of Thought Mind

Defeat is a state of mind, no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.

~ Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee Defeat Inspirational Mind

Remember no man is really defeated unless he is discouraged.

~ Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee Courage Defeat

The essential quality of living life lies simply in the living.

~ Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee Life Living

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

~ Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee Advice For Daily Living Prayer

Life is something for which there is no answer, it must be understood from moment to moment.

~ Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee Life Life And Living

Living exists when life lives through us … life is a living now!

~ Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee Life And Living

Memory: Recognizing the value of an alert mind and an alert memory, I will encourage mine to become alert by taking care to impress it clearly with all thoughts I wish to recall and by associating those thoughts with related subjects which I may call to mind frequently.

~ Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee Black Belt Books Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do Martial Arts Memory Personal Development Philosophy Tao

It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.

~ Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee Compassion

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.

~ Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee Be Like Water Bruce Lee Changes Evolve Find Your Way Fluid Growth Jewels For The Mind Knowledge Lee Martial Arts Philosophy Water Wisdom

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

~ Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee Goals Vision

Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are the weeds that strange confidence.

~ Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee Confidence Negative Thoughts

If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow -- you are not understanding yourself.

~ Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee Knowing Oneself Routine Traditions Understanding Understanding Yourself

Relationship is understanding. It is a process of self-revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself -- to be is to be related.

~ Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee Mirror Relationships Self Revelation Soul Soulmates Understanding

Seriously, if you always put limits on what you can do, physical or anything else; it'll spread over into the rest of your life. It'll spread into your work, into your morality, into your entire being... There are NO limits. There are plateus, 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.

~ Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee Entire Being Go Beyond If It Kills Youi Şt Kills You Limits Morality No Limits Plateus There Are No Limits

Emotion can be the enemy, if you give into your emotion, you lose yourself. You must be at one with your emotions, because the body always follows the mind.

~ Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee Emotions Enemy

Satori - in the awakening from a dream. Awakening and self-realization and seeing into one's own being - these are synonymous.

~ Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee Awakening Enlightenment Self Realization Spirituality

In Buddhism, there is no place for using effort. Just be ordinary and nothing special. Eat your food, move your bowels, pass water and when you're tired go and lie down. The ignorant will laugh at me, but the wise will understand.

~ Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee Buddhism

Not being tense but ready.Not thinking but not dreaming.Not being set but flexible.Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement.It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come.

~ Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee Zen

Learn the principles, abide by the principles, and then dissolve the principles.

~ Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee Life Principles

Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-conciousness. Freedom discovers man the moment he loses concern over what impression he is making or about to make.

~ Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee Bruce Lee Inspirational Sports Tao Of Jeet Kune Do

Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.

~ Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee Bruce Lee Fighting Jeet Kune Do Martial Arts

The best fighter is not a Boxer, Karate or Judo man. The best fighter is someone who can adapt on any style. He kicks too good for a Boxer, throws too good for a Karate man, and punches too good for a Judo man.

~ Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee Adaptation Best Formless Mma Multifaceted

Always be yourself and have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and try to duplicate it.

~ Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee Be Yourself Duplicate Imitation

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

~ Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee Life Work Limits
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