“Avoid the superficial, penetrate the complex, go to the heart of the problem, and pinpoint the key factors.”
– BRUCE LEE
“The tools, your natural weapons, have a double purpose. To destroy the opponent in front of you, or the annihilation of things that stand in the way of peace, justice and humanity, and to destroy your own impulses caused by the instinct of self-preservation, to destroy anything bothering your mind, not to hurt anyone, but to overcome your own greed, anger, and folly.”
– BRUCE LEE
“The height of cultivation runs to simplicity. Halfway cultivation runs to ornamentation. This is the problem of ripening. This ripening is the progressive integration of the individual with his being, his essence. This is possible only through self-exploration in free expression and not in imitative repetition of imposed patterns.”
– BRUCE LEE
“Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successfull personality and duplicate it.”
― Bruce Lee
“To obtain enlightenment means the extinction of everything which obscures the “real life.” At the same time it implies boundless expansion.”
– BRUCE LEE
“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, Tao of Jeet Kune Do
“Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.”
― Bruce Lee
“The doubters said,
“Man can not fly,”
The doers said,
“Maybe, but we’ll try,”
And finally soared
In the morning glow
While non-believers
Watched from below.”
― Bruce Lee
“A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence. ”
― Bruce Lee
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