Bruce Lee Quotes About Water

Quotes about: Water

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  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

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Friends

  "Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey". Documentary, Action, Biography, 2000.

• Running water never grows stale.

  Bruce Lee

  Running, Water, Stale

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee The Tao of Gung Fu: A Study in the Way of Chinese Martial Art”, p.180, Tuttle Publishing

• Flow in the living moment. — We are always in a process of becoming and nothing is fixed. Have no rigid system in you, and you’ll be flexible to change with the ever changing. Open yourself and flow, my friend. Flow in the total openness of the living moment. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo.

  Bruce Lee

  Time, Moving, Echoes

  "Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living" edited by John Little, (p. 13), 2000.

• If you want to learn to swim you have to throw yourself in the water.

  Bruce Lee

  Water, Swim, Want

• Be like water, my friend.

  Bruce Lee

  Water, My Friends

• Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water.

  Bruce Lee

  Blank Mind, Empty Mind, Water

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee The Tao of Gung Fu: A Study in the Way of Chinese Martial Art”, p.138, Tuttle Publishing

• 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

  Inspirational, Wise, Lying

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.161, Tuttle Publishing

• 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.

  Bruce Lee

  Effectiveness, Water, Cracks

  "Fear Vs. Faith". Book by Wade Rich, 2012.

• Emptiness the starting point. — In order to taste my cup of water you must first empty your cup. My friend, drop all your preconceived and fixed ideas and be neutral. Do you know why this cup is useful? Because it is empty.

  Bruce Lee

  Order, Ideas, Water

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.2, Tuttle Publishing

• When one has reached maturity in this art, one will have the formless form. It is like the dissolving or thawing [of] ice into water that can shape itself to any structure. When one has no form, one can be all forms; when one has no style, one can fit in with any style.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Art, Maturity

  "Bruce Lee: Artist of Life".

• Life is an ever-flowing process and somewhere on the path some unpleasant things will pop up - it might leave a scar, but then life is flowing, and like running water, when it stops it grows stale. Go bravely on, my friend, because each experience teaches us a lesson. Keep blasting because life is such that sometimes it is nice and sometimes it is not.

  Bruce Lee

  Motivational, Running, Nice

  Bruce Lee, John R. Little (1997). “Words of the Dragon: Interviews, 1958-1973”, p.75, Tuttle Publishing

• Water can flow, or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Empty Mind, Water

  "Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey". Documentary, Action, Biography, 2000.

• Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.

  Bruce Lee

  Strength, Inspiring, Mma

  "Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey". Documentary, Action, Biography, 2000.

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

  Bruce Lee

  Inspiring, Learning, Order

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.2, Tuttle Publishing

• If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo.

  Bruce Lee

  Moving, Echoes, Mirrors

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.13, Tuttle Publishing

• The idea is that flowing water never goes stale, so just keep on flowing.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Ideas, Water

• If you want to learn to swim jump into the water. On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you.

  Bruce Lee

  Swimming, Land, Water

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

  Bruce Lee

  Water, Cups

• Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo.

  Bruce Lee

  Moving, Echoes, Mirrors

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.13, Tuttle Publishing

• 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.

  Bruce Lee

  Water, Trying, Useless

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.97, Tuttle Publishing

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