Bruce Lee Quotes - Page 12

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• Love is like a friendship caught on fire.

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  Love, Romantic, Soulmate

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.96, Tuttle Publishing

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

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  Strength, Inspiring, Mma

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

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• I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies.

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  Lying, Positivity, Knowing

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• Bring the mind to a sharp focus and make it alert so that it can immediately intuit truth, which is everywhere.

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  Focus, Mind

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.39, Tuttle Publishing

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• To tolerate is to insult.

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  Tolerance, Insult, Tolerate

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.375, Tuttle Publishing

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• Seek freedom from the conformity of styles

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  Style, Conformity

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• I don't believe in getting something for nothing.

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  Believe, Don't Believe

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.83, Tuttle Publishing

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• A martial artist has to take responsibility for himself and accept the consequences of his own doing.

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  Art, Responsibility, Accepting

  "Fictional character: Lee". "Enter the Dragon", www.imdb.com. 1973.

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• The principle of martial arts is not a thing that can be learned, like a science, by fact-finding and instruction in facts. It has to grow spontaneously, like a flower, in a mind free from emotions and desires.

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  Art, Flower, Mind

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.15, Tuttle Publishing

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• To realize freedom the mind has to learn to look at life, which is a vast movement, without the bondage of time , for freedom lies beyond the field of consciousness care for watching, but don't stop and interpret "I am free," then you're living in a memory of something that has gone before.

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  Memories, Lying, Mind

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.9, Tuttle Publishing

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• Each moment that passes changes you...You can't even own yourself. How can you ever hope to own anyone or anything else.

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  Humility, Moments, Flexibility

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• Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you. I'll not willingly offend, nor be easily offended.

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  Trouble, Easily Offended, Offended

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.375, Tuttle Publishing

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• A man strikes you, make him bleed. He makes you bleed, you break his bones. He breaks your bones, kill him. Being hit is inevitable, strike back twice as hard.

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  Army, Men, Bones

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• Meditation means to be free from all phenomena and calmness means to be internally unperturbed. There will be calmness when one is free from external objects and is not perturbed.

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  Life, Peace, Materialism

  "Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way".

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• Truth cannot be structured or confined.

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  Confined

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.205, Tuttle Publishing

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• The happiness that is derived from excitement is like a brilliant fire- soon it will go out.

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  Powerful, Fire, Brilliant

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.86, Tuttle Publishing

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• To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery.

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  Discovery, Revelations, Certain

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.238, Tuttle Publishing

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• Take inventory of everyone with whom you have contact.

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  Inventory, Contact

  Bruce Lee, John Little (1997). “Jeet kune do: Bruce Lee's commentaries on the martial way”, Tuttle Publishing

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• Training is one of the most neglected phases of athletics. Too much time is given to the development of skill and too little to the development of the individual for participation.

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  Skills, Training, Development

  Bruce Lee (1975). “Tao of Jeet Kune Do”, Black Belt Communications Incorporated

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• The aim of art is to project an inner vision into the world.

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  Art, Vision, World

  Bruce Lee (1975). “Tao of Jeet Kune Do”, Black Belt Communications Incorporated

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

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  Water, Cups

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• One should be in harmony with, not in opposition to, the strength and force of the opposition. This means that one should do nothing that is not natural or spontaneous; the important thing is not to strain in any way.

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  Mean, Power, Important

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee The Tao of Gung Fu: A Study in the Way of Chinese Martial Art”, p.119, Tuttle Publishing

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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 “come”, we “are.” Don't strive to become, but be.

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  Mirrors, Self, Existential

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• 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.

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  Inspirational, Art, Maturity

  "Bruce Lee: Artist of Life".

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• To be bound by traditional martial art style or styles is the way of the mindless, enslaved martial artist. But to be inspired by the traditional martial art and to achieve further heights is the way of genius.

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  Art, Style, Genius

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.61, Tuttle Publishing

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