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What Is, is more important than What Should Be.

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Bruce Lee
Age: 32 †
Born: 1940
Born: November 27
Died: 1973
Died: July 20
Actor
Film Actor
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Film Producer
Martial Artist
Philosopher
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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 is never decoration, embellishment instead, it is work of enlightenment. Art, in other words, is a technique for acquiring liberty.
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If there is a God, he is within. You don't ask God to give you things, you depend on God for your inner theme.
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Every morning like a scholar at his first class I prepare a blank mind for the day to write upon.
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Effort within the mind further limits the mind, because effort implies struggle towards a goal and when you have a goal, a purpose, an end in view, you have placed a limit on the mind.
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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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For something that is static, fixed, dead, there can be a way or a definite path but not for anything that is moving and living.
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Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-consciousness. Freedom discovers man the moment he loses concern over what impression he is making or about to make.
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Water can flow, or it can crash. Be water, my friend.
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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 hope martial artists are more interested in the root of martial arts and not the different decorative branches, flowers or leaves.
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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.
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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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The aim of art is to project an inner vision into the world, to state in aesthetic creation the deepest psychic and personal experiences of a human being. It is to enable those experiences to be intelligible and generally recognized within the total framework of an ideal world.
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A quality martial artist is always ready for any move, and trains oneself invincible.
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The moment is freedom. — I couldn’t live by a rigid schedule. I try to live freely from moment to moment, letting things happen and adjusting to them.
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More and more I believe in the fact that you have two hands and two legs, and the thing is how to make good use of yourself - and that's about it.
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