Bruce Lee
“Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.”
- Bruce Lee
I was about 8, and very, very disappointed at my parents forbidding me to train karate; still thankful for letting me watch all Bruce Lee movies.
I got a book on his teachings and full of his photos. I was convinced that I look so much like him and also I just plainly liked him, as only a child can; so I decided one day to ‘respectfully’ explain to my dad that I am convinced Bruce Lee is actually my father..
“Instead of dedicating your life to actualize a concept of what you should be like, ACTUALIZE YOURSELF. The process of maturing does not mean to become a captive of conceptualization. It is to come to the realization of what lies in our innermost selves. .. 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.”
“Reality is being itself. — It is being itself, in becoming itself. Reality in its isness, the “isness” of a thing. Thus isness is the meaning — having freedom in its primary sense — not limited by attachments, confinements, partialization, complexities.”
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“To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.”
“Time means a lot to me because, you see, I, too, am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing and simplifying. If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.”
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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.”