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Quotes from Striking Thoughts — Bruce Lee

1940–1973 United States

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Don't fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

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What IS is more important than WHAT SHOULD BE. To many people are looking at "what is" from a position of thinking "what should be."

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Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

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The aphorism "as a man thinketh in his heart so is he" contains the secret of life.

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Instead of dedicating your life to actualize a concept of what you should be like, ACTUALIZE YOURSELF.

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In Science we have finally come back to the pre-Socratic philosopher Heraclitus, who said everything is flow, flux, process. There are no "things."

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Life is better lived than conceptualized.

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The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a pattern of systems.

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

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Flow in the living moment. — We are always in a process of becoming and NOTHING is fixed.

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A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

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Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.

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Concentration is the ROOT of all the higher abilities in man.

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Taoist philosophy … is essentially monistic. … Matter and energy, Yang and Yin, heaven and earth, are conceived of as essentially one or as two coexistent poles of one indivisible whole.

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Be aware of doing your best to understand the ROOT in life, and realize the DIRECT and the INDIRECT are in fact a complementary WHOLE.

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Knowledge, surely, is always of time, whereas knowing is not of time. Knowledge is from a source, from accumulation, from conclusion, while knowing is a movement.

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Fluidity is the way to an empty mind. You must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying.

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Research your own experience; absorb what is useful, reject what is useless and add what is essentially your own.

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Balance your thoughts with action. — If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.

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Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Bruce Lee (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.