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A founder of the hybrid martial arts philosophy Jeet Kune Do, an actor, director, philosopher, and an absolute icon of the 20th century, Lee Jun-fan, a.k.a. Bruce Lee, was truly a legendary man.
Because of his work, Bruce Lee is credited with bridging the gap between the West and the East and introducing the ideas of Hong Kong martial art movies, much to our delight, to Hollywood.
Although Lee’s death was horribly untimely at the age of 32 in 1973, he still left a vast legacy to pore over. Besides being a martial arts professional, he was also a philosopher, and that gave us a myriad of inspiring quotes to remember him by and to base our beliefs on.
So, here we are with an article full of Bruce Lee quotes, and trust us, each one is as inspiring and moving as anything you’ll read today.
Being a master of martial arts allowed Bruce Lee to spread his teachings to some of the most famous people of the time. His roster of disciples included the controversial yet ingenious director Roman Polanski and his ill-fated wife, Sharon Tate, who has recently been reborn in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon A Time In Hollywood. Of course, Quentin didn’t leave out the chance to include the martial arts master in his movie, too!
However, if this pair of Hollywood celebrities isn’t that impressive to you, you’d be amazed to know that Chuck Norris was also one of Bruce Lee’s pupils. Yup, THE Chuck Norris. Well, and in his training, Bruce Lee didn’t spare any wise words, which, of course, settled down nicely into many books and found their way into our article.
So, prepare yourself for some quality inspiring quotes and moving phrases - they are just a karate chop down below.
Once you are there, be sure to give your vote for the famous quote you’d like to see at the top of this list, and after all that is well and done, share this article with your friends.
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#1
Admitting It Feels Like Winning
"Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them."
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#2
Oops-Proof Your Tomorrow Now
"If you don’t want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today."
#4
No Copycats Allowed Here
"Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it."
#7
Mutual Unbothered Energy
"I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine."
#9
Solo, not sorry
"Loneliness is only an opportunity to cut adrift and find yourself. In solitude you are least alone. Make good use of it."
#10
Mastering the Art of Chill
"Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you. I'll not willingly offend, nor be easily offended."
#11
Fake it till you actually get it
"To know, but to be as though not knowing, is the height of wisdom."
#12
Wait, so understanding is the new black?
"I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged."
#13
Basically, math’s way of saying chill out
"Simplicity is the shortest distance between two points."
#14
Truth? You’ve got this.
"A teacher is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for himself."
#15
Quality Over Quantity, Every Time
"I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times."
#17
None of it really matters anyway
"Forget about winning and losing; forget about pride and pain."
#18
Chasing Goals, Not Just Catching Them
"A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at."
#19
Live Fast, Be Unforgettable
"The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering."
#20
Time Doesn’t Wait, Neither Should You
"If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of."
#21
Overthinking: The Ultimate Time Thief
"If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done."
#26
Existential Hydration Vibes
"If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend."
#29
Steal Like a Genius
"Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it."
#30
Mindset Is Half the Battle
"If you think a thing is impossible, you’ll only make it impossible."
#32
Aim High or Go Home
"Don’t fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail."
#33
Wait, this hits different at 3 AM
"Those who are unaware they are walking in darkness will never seek the light."
#34
Not Exactly a One-Hit Wonder
"A fight is not won by one punch or kick. Either learn to endure or hire a bodyguard."
#36
When “Standing Out” Wasn’t an Option
"Only the self-sufficient stand alone – most people follow the crowd and imitate."
#37
Control Freaks Anonymous, Admit It
"The less confident we are in ourselves, the less we are in touch with ourselves and the world, the more we want to control."
#39
Talk Nice or Stay Stuck
"Don't speak negatively about yourself, even as a joke. Your body doesn't know the difference. Words are energy and they cast spells, that's why it's called spelling. Change the way you speak about yourself, and you can change your life."
#40
Solo vibes = strong vibes
"A wise man can always be found alone. A weak man can always be found in crowd."
#42
Lowkey the Ultimate Power Move
"Patience is not passive, on the contrary it is concentrated strength."
#43
Not Just Born, But Finished Legendary
"It doesn't matter you were born as legend, but what does matter is legendary end. Think about it."
#44
Arguments with a plot twist
"A good fight should be like a small play, but played seriously."
#45
Answers are overrated anyway
"Life is something for which there is no answer; it must be understood from moment to moment."
#46
Style took a day off today
"The man who is really serious, with the urge to find out what truth is, has no style at all. He lives only in what is."
#48
Opportunity’s just waiting for you to show up
"To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities."
#49
Keep it real, punch or kick
"Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick."
#50
The “Just Chill” Philosophy
"Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against."
#51
Guess Who’s Your Mirror Today?
"To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person."
#54
Filter, Remix, Repeat
"Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own."
#55
Losing Only Hurts If You Let It
"Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind."
#56
Self-Awareness: The Real Hustle
"For it is easy to criticize and break down the spirit of others, but to know yourself takes a lifetime."
#57
Get to Know You, Through Me
"Self-knowledge involves relationship. To know oneself is to study one self in action with another person."
#58
Love: The Ultimate Self-Reflection Session
"Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself – to be is to be related."
#59
Bet They Didn’t See This Coming
"The doubters said, ‘Man can not fly,’ the doers said, ‘Maybe, but we’ll try,’ and finally soared In the morning glow, while non-believers watched from below."
#60
Confidence: The Ultimate Power Move
"Life’s battles don’t always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later the man who wins, is the man who thinks he can."
#61
Mastering the art of nothing
"When one has reached maturity in the art, one will have a formless form. It is like ice dissolving in water."
#62
Flexibility is Lowkey Power
"When one has no form, one can be all forms; when one has no style, he can fit in with any style."
#64
Too Deep to Overthink
"Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I’ve come to understand that life is best to be lived — not to be conceptualized. If you have to think, you still do not understand."
#66
Not your teacher, just your mirror
"I am not teaching you anything. I just help you to explore yourself."
#67
Letting chaos in, but make it chill
"You can never invite the wind but you must leave the window open."
#68
Look Up, Not Down
"It's like a finger pointing away to the moon. Don’t concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory."
#70
Stop Confusing Reality with Ideals
"‘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.’"
#71
Endurance: Use It or Lose It
"Endurance is lost rapidly if one ceases to work at its maximum."
#72
Keep Your Brain Garden Weed-Free
"Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are the weeds that strangle confidence."
#73
Defeat Is Just a State of Mind
"Remember no man is really defeated unless he is discouraged."
#75
Strength in staying soft
"Yielding will overcome anything superior to itself; its strength is boundless."
#76
Punches don’t wait for handshakes
"Obviously, if your kick does not commence, his punch will land first and your defense is useless."
#77
No filter, no shame, just soul
"The unfolding of the bare human soul... that is what interests me."
#78
Wisdom Loves the Roast
"Do not correct a fool or he will hate you, correct a wise man and he will appreciate you."
#79
When You’re Done, You’re Done
"Even though I, Bruce Lee, may die someday without fulfilling all of my ambitions, I feel no sorrow. I did what I wanted to do. What I've done, I've done with sincerity and to the best of my ability. You can't expect much more from life."
#81
Deep Thoughts, but Make It Chill
"Discipline must conform to the nature of things in their suchness."
#82
Learning Isn’t Copy-Paste, FYI
"Education: to discover but not merely to imitate. Learning techniques without inward experiencing can only lead to superficiality."
#83
Silent but deadly energy
"The most dangerous person is the one who listens, thinks and observes."
#84
Mastering the No-Conflict Flex
"My style? You can call it the art of fighting without fighting."
#85
Swimming skills > daydream skills
"If you want to learn to swim jump into the water. On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you."
#86
Peak Life Goals, Honestly
"Just be ordinary and nothing special. Eat your food, move your bowels, pass water, and when you're tired, go and lie down. The ignorant will laugh at me, but the wise will understand."
#87
Skill Level: Unlocked at Last
"Practice makes perfect. After a long time of practicing, our work will become natural, skillfull, swift and steady."
#88
When Dumb Questions School the Wise
"A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer."
#89
Limits? Nah, they just sneak in everywhere.
"If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life."
#91
Rules Were Made to Break
"All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns."
#92
Dream Big, Then Shine Bigger
"You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world."
#93
Growing Pains, But Make It Exciting
"I am happy, because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies."
#94
Plot Twists Happen Daily
"To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery."
#95
Misery’s secret savings account
"I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude."
#96
Flow > Force, Always
"Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round or through it."
#97
Flexibility Wins Every Time
"If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves."
#98
Living Life Without a Back-Up Plan
"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."
#99
Time’s Up, No Refunds
"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."
#100
Wait, so I’m my own dating project?
"Relationship is a process of self-evaluation and self-revelation."
#101
School’s out, life’s in session
"Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning."
#102
Change Is the Only Groove We Know
"Life is never stagnation. It is constant movement, un-rhythmic movement, as we as constant change. Things live by moving and gain strength as they go."
#103
Freedom sounds better anyway
"I wish neither to possess nor to be possessed. I no longer covet ‘paradise’. More important, I no longer fear ‘hell’."
#104
Healing? Yeah, it was already there.
"The medicine for my suffering I had within me from the very beginning but I did not take it. My ailment came from within myself, but I did not observe it, until this moment."
#105
Self-Fueled and Burning Bright
"Now I see that I will never find the light unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel, consuming myself."
#106
Peace Starts When Comparison Ends
"Reality is apparent when one ceases to compare. There is “what is” only when there is no comparison at all, and to live with what is, is to be peaceful."
#107
Quiet doesn’t mean paused, btw
"The stillness in stillness is not the real stillness; only when there is stillness in movement does the universal rhythm manifest."
#108
Proof that stressing ruins your game
"Everything you do, if not in a relaxed state will be done at a lesser level than you are proficient. Thus the tensed expert marksman will aim at a level less than his/her student."
#109
Actions Speak Louder, Obviously
"Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do."
#110
Muscles Need More Than Just Lifting
"The athlete who is building muscles through weight training should be very sure to work adequately on speed and flexibility at the same time."
#111
Boundaries Only Breed More Boundaries
"If you always put limits on what you can do, physical or anything else, it’ll spread over into the rest of your life."
#112
Comfort zones are just speed bumps
"There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you. A man must constantly exceed his level."
#113
Mindset Runs the Show
"The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits."
#115
Flexibility: The Chill Power Move
"Do not be tense, just be ready, not thinking but not dreaming, not being set but being flexible."
#116
Playing the whole game, not just the score
"The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat."
#117
When patience actually pays off
"Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment."
#118
When Google Can’t Help, You Look Inside
"After all, all knowledge simply means self-knowledge."
#119
Walking the line like a pro
"But neither can you condemn nor justify and yet be extraordinarily alive as you walk on."
#120
Strength Over Shortcut, Always
"Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one."
#121
Mind Blown, Learning Is a Loop
"Learning is never cumulative, it is a movement of knowing which has no beginning and no end."
#122
When Overthinking Just Won’t Quit
"The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action."
#123
Falling Doesn’t Mean Failing
"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."
#124
Focus: Where the Magic Starts
"Concentration is the root of all the higher abilities in man."
#125
Creativity Doesn’t Like Rules
"Art is the expression of the self; the more complicated and restrictive a method is, the lesser the opportunity for expression of one’s original sense of freedom."
#126
Mental Chill, Physical Thrill
"Relaxation is a physical state, but it is controlled by the mental state. It is acquired by the conscious effort to control the thought as well as the action pattern. It takes perception, practice and willingness to train the mind into new habits of thinking and the body into new habits of action."
#127
Forever figuring it out, huh?
"Life is a process, not a goal; a means but not an end; a constant movement rather than an established pattern."
#128
Adulting but make it zen
"Let the spiritual grow up through the common. Live content with small means; seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion. Be worthy, not respectable, wealthy, not rich; study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never. In a word, let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common."
#129
Bend Don’t Break Energy
"Pliability is life; rigidity is death, whether one speaks of man’s body, his mind, or his spirit."
#130
Real Talk, No Filter
"Honesty and love. Frankness and truthfulness to myself and to the one I love. Truthful between two as one. You are part of my life, no pride, vanity, or anger involved."
#131
Mind-Bending Quiet Power
"Nothingness cannot be defined; the softest thing cannot be snapped."
#132
When the moon flexes on water vibes
"As the water manifests the brightness of the moon, the moon manifests the clarity of the water."
#133
Focus: The Art of Mental FOMO
"Concentration is a form of exclusion, and where there is exclusion, there is a thinker who excludes."
#134
Memory: The Forever Fragrance
"Remembrance is the only paradise out of which we cannot be driven away. Pleasure is the flower that fades, remembrance is the lasting perfume. Remembrances last longer than present realities; I have preserved blossoms for many years, but never fruits."
#135
Knowing Your Limits, Honestly
"If you would not spill the wine, do not fill the glass too full. If you wish your blade to hold it’s edge, do not try to make it over-keen."
#137
When Your Belly Is the Skeptic
"Experiencing is believing. A fat belly cannot believe that such a thing as hunger exists."
#138
When Chill Wins the Race
"The body performs better when the athlete lets it go than when he tries to drive it."
#139
Growth Doesn’t Happen in the Comfort Zone
"The enemy of development is this pain phobia - the unwillingness to do a tiny bit of suffering."
#140
Life Skills: The Ultimate Art Hack
"Masters in all branches of art must first be masters in living, for the soul creates everything."
#141
That’s some serious style flexing
"The best fighter is not a Boxer, Karate or Judo man. The best fighter is someone who can adapt on any style. He kicks too good for a Boxer, throws too good for a Karate man, and punches too good for a Judo man."
#142
Bottled Rage Breeds Weird Stuff
"Anger should be expressed. Any anger that is not coming out, flowing freely, will turn into sadism, power drive, stammering, and other means of torturing."
#144
Work Smarter, Not Harder Vibes
"The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be."
#145
Growth Mode: Always On
"Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential."
#146
People Over Rules, Always
"Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system."
#147
Less Drama, More Impact
"To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is."
#148
Playing by my own rules only
"I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation."
#149
Because attitude really is a flex
"Choose the positive. You have choice, you are master of your attitude, choose the positive, the constructive."
#150
Teaching without accidentally turning us into mini versions of themselves, respect.
"A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence."
#151
Less clutter, more clarity
"Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality."
#152
Are You Spending or Just Drifting?
"To spend time is to pass it in a specified manner. To waste time is to expend it thoughtlessly or carelessly."
#153
Make it yours or leave it behind
"Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own."
#155
Focus: The Real Superpower
"The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus."
#156
Thoughts Run the Show
"What you habitually think largely determines what you will ultimately become."
#157
Overthinking Kills the Vibe
"Life is better lived than conceptualized. This writing can be less demanding should I allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation."
#158
Letting Go Feels Weirdly Good
"The knowledge and skills you have achieved are meant to be forgotten so you can float comfortably in emptiness, without obstruction."
#159
Fear? Nah, Just Need a Self-Date
"Fear comes from uncertainty; we can eliminate the fear within us when we know ourselves better."
#160
Knowing yourself beats guessing others
"As the great Sun Tzu said: ‘When you know yourself and your opponent, you will win every time. When you know yourself but not your opponent, you will win one and lose one. However, when you do not know yourself or your opponent, you will be imperiled every time.’"
#161
Flow Like No One’s Watching
"Don’t get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water."
#162
Limitations Are Just Suggestions
"Using no way as a way, having no limitation as limitation."
#163
Somebody call Shakespeare, this fight’s getting poetic
"Let your opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let him smash into your flesh and you fracture his bones; let him fracture your bones and you take his life! Do not be concerned with escaping safely – lay your life before him!"
#164
When Winning’s Just Noise
"The world is full of people who are determined to be somebody or to give trouble. They want to get ahead, to stand out. Such ambition has no use for a gung fu man, who rejects all forms of self-assertiveness and competition."
#165
Trapped by Your Own Routine
"Because one does not want to be disturbed, to be made uncertain, he establishes a pattern of conduct, of thought, a pattern of relationship to man etc. Then he becomes a slave to the pattern and takes the pattern to be the real thing."
#166
When words just won’t cut it
"Art is the way to the absolute and to the essence of human life."
#167
Life’s too wild to box in
"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."
#168
Go With the Flow, Not Against It
"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."
#169
Winning without the flex
"The good man wins a victory and then stops; he will not go on to acts of violent winning, he boasteth not, he will not triumph, he shows no arrogance. He wins because he cannot choose. After his victory he will not be overbearing."
#170
Deep Thoughts But Make It Simple
"The two primary moral questions. There are two sorts of problems concerning moral issues: where does good or bad action derive from? What makes an action bad or good?"
#171
Opportunities Aren’t Just Lucky Strikes
"The difference between an expert and a novice fighter is that the expert makes use of each opportunity."
#172
Deep thoughts for head-scratching moments
"To change with change is the changeless state."
#173
Skill Isn’t Art’s Whole Story
"Artistic skill, therefore, does not mean artistic perfection. It remains rather a continuing medium or reflection of some step in psychic development, the perfection of which is not to be found in shape and form, but must radiate from the human soul."
#175
Life’s too big for tunnel vision
"Too much concentration belittles life. Concentration is a narrowing down of the mind - but we are concerned with the total process of living, and to concentrate exclusively on any particular aspect of life, belittles life."
#176
More Than Just Flexing Power
"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."
#177
Technique in a Nutshell
"To understand techniques, you must learn that they contain a lot of condensed movement."
#178
Life’s secret? Just living
"The essential quality of living life lies simply in the living."
#179
When tired hands forget the details
"Do not practice finely skilled movements after you are tired, for you will begin to substitute gross motions for finer ones and generalized efforts for specific ones. Remember, wrong movements tend to supervene and the athlete's progress is set back."
#181
Mood check: Master, not messenger
"Emotion can be the enemy, if you give into your emotion, you lose yourself. You must be at one with your emotions, because the body always follows the mind."
#182
Real talk: honesty’s a gym session
"To express oneself honestly, not lying to oneself — that, my friend, is very hard to do."
#183
From Tinder Spark to Eternal Ember
"Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable."
#184
Less is the new every day
"It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential."
#185
God’s just your hype DJ
"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."
#186
When Your Soul Decides to Get Serious
"Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul."
#187
The Trap of Who You’re “Supposed” to Be
"Many people dedicate their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like, rather than actualizing themselves. This difference between self-actualization and self-image actualization is very important."
#188
Brute Force Meets Its Match
"In combat, without the prior attributes, a strong man will be like the bull with its colossal strength futilely pursuing the matador or like a low-geared truck chasing a rabbit."
#189
Quietly owning the chaos
"It is being “wholly” and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come."
#190
Forever Learning, Zero Deadlines
"Time means a lot to me, because you see I am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing."
#191
When Art Talks Nature Back
"The aim of art is not the one-sided promotion of spirit, soul and senses, but the opening of all human capacities – thought, feeling, will – to the life rhythm of the world of nature. So will the voiceless voice be heard and the self be brought into harmony with it."
#192
Trust But Verify, Always
"Independent inquiry is needed in your search for truth, not dependence on anyone else’s view or a mere book."
#193
When You Stop Trying, It Just Clicks
"With all the training thrown to the wind, with a mind perfectly unaware of its own working, with the self vanishing nowhere, anybody knows where, the art of Jeet Kune Do attains its perfection."
#194
Patience wins over panic every time
"You cannot clear muddied water with your hand. Who is there that can make muddy water clear? But if allowed to remain still, it will become clear of itself. Who is there that can secure a state of absolute repose? But keep calm and let time go on, and the state of repose will gradually arrest."
#195
When Your Arm Decides to Freelance
"The whip of the arm is caused by turning the body away from the arm until the range of movement in the shoulder joint is completely used. Then, the arm must turn with the body. Executed quickly, this causes the arm to whip forward as if released from a bow."
#196
Not All That Glitters Is Grappling
"Some martial arts are very popular, real crowd pleasers, because they look good, have smooth techniques. They are like a wine that has been watered. A diluted wine is not a real wine, not a good wine, hardly the genuine article. Some martial arts don’t look so good, but you know that they have a kick, a tang, a genuine taste."
#197
When Life Hits, Brain Switches On
"Adversity causes the mind to think properly. In a time when everything goes well, my mind is pampered with enjoyment, possessiveness, etc. Only in times of adversity, privation, or mishap, does my mind function and think properly of my state. This close examination of self strengthens my mind and leads me to understand and be understood."
#198
Classic physics flex
"Sideways force can be broken though by straight force. Straight force can be stopped by sideways force."
#199
Brainbreak: Ditch the Mental Chains
"The mind must be emancipated from old habits, prejudices, restrictive thought processes and even ordinary thought itself."
#200
Flexibility Wins Every Time
"Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind."
#201
Not Every Disaster Deserves a Drama Queen
"Know the difference between a catastrophe and an inconvenience. To realize that it’s just an inconvenience, that it is not a catastrophe, but just an unpleasantness, is part of coming into your own, part of waking up."
#202
When Following Feels Like Copy-Paste
"The second-hand artist blindly following his sensei or sifu accepts his pattern. As a result, his action is and, more importantly, his thinking become mechanical. His responses become automatic, according to set patterns, making him narrow and limited."
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