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'What is' is more important than 'what should be.' Too many people are looking at 'what is' from a position of thinking 'what should be'.

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Bruce Lee
Age: 32 †
Born: 1940
Born: November 27
Died: 1973
Died: July 20
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An intelligent mind is an inquiring mind. It is not satisfied with explanation, with conclusions. Nor is it a mind that believes, because belief is again another form of conclusion.
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When you're talking about fighting, as it is, with no rules, well then, baby you'd better train every part of your body!
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The unfolding of the bare human soul...that is what interests me.
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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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Boards don't hit back.
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Concentration is the root of all the higher abilities in man.
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To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
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Remember, Life is a journey, not a destination.
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True refinement seeks simplicity.
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Like everyone else, you want to learn the way to win, but never to accept the way to lose - to accept defeat. To learn to die is to be liberated from it. So when tomorrow comes you must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying!
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Art requires imagination. It requires Creativity. Creativity requires experience and experience comes from your life. And your life is expressed in your art.
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I have always been a martial artist by choice, an actor by profession, but above all, am actualising myself to be an artist of life.
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It is not a shame to be knocked down by other people. The important thing is to ask when you're being knocked down, 'Why am I being knocked down?' If a person can reflect in this way, then there is hope for this person.
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The core of understanding lies in the individual mind, and until that is touched everything is uncertain and superficial. Truth cannot be perceived until we come to fully understand our potential and ourselves. After all, knowledge in the martial arts ultimately means self-knowledge.
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You must accept the fact that there is no help but self-help. I cannot tell you how to gain freedom since freedom exists within you.
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To be what I term a 'quality' human being one has to be transparently real and have the courage to be what he is.
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A self-willed man obeys a different law, the one law I, too, hold absolutely sacred the human law in himself, his own individual will.
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Sorrows are our best educator. A man can see further through a tear than a telescope.
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