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False teachers of the Way of life use flowery words.

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Bruce Lee
Age: 32 †
Born: 1940
Born: November 27
Died: 1973
Died: July 20
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Nowadays you don't go around on the street kicking people, punching people - because if you do (makes gun shape with hand), well that's it - I don't care how good you are.
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To spend time is to pass it in a specified manner. To waste time is to expend it thoughtlessly or carelessly. We all have time to either spend or waste and it is our decision what to do with it. But once passed, it is gone forever.
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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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The martial arts are based upon understanding, hard work and a total comprehension of skills. Power training and the use of force are easy, but total comprehension of all of the skills of the martial arts is very difficult to achieve.
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The abdominal and waist region coordinate all parts of the body and act as the center or generator. Therefore, you can promote the ability to control the body's action and master your will more easily.
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I refer to my hands, feet and body as the tools of the trade. The hands and feet must be sharpened and improved daily to be efficient.
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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.
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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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As long as we separate this oneness into two we won't achieve realization.
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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.
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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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Make at least one definite move daily toward your goal.
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I don't believe in getting something for nothing.
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Long-term consistency trumps short-term intensity.
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If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.
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Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one
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Art lives where absolute freedom is, because where it is not, there can be no creativity.
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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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