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Bruce Lee: Artist of Life

Bruce Lee

Top 10 Best Quotes

“The ideal is unnatural naturalness, or natural unnaturalness. I mean it is a combination of both. I mean here is natural instinct and here is control. You are to combine the two in harmony. Not if you have one to the extreme, you'll be very unscientific. If you have another to the extreme, you become, all of a sudden, a mechanical man No longer a human being. It is a successful combination of both. That way it is a process of continuing growth. Be water, my friend.”

“A conditioned mind is never a free mind.”

“Learn the principles, abide by the principles, and then dissolve the principles.”

“Any technique, however worthy and desirable, becomes a disease, when the mind is obsessed with it.”

“Relationship is a process of self-revelation.”

“The essential quality of living life lies simply in the living.”

“The more restricted a method, the lesser the opportunity for one's individual freedom of expression.”

“Life is something for which there is no answer; it must be understood from moment to moment.”

“Living exists when life lives through us … life is a living now!”

“if you are cursed with perfectionism, then you’re absolutely sunk. This ideal is a yardstick which always gives you the opportunity to browbeat yourself, to berate yourself and others. Since this ideal is an impossibility, you can never live up to it. You are merely in love with this ideal, and there is no end to the self-torture, to the self-nagging, self-castigating. It hides under the mask of “self-improvement.” It never works.”

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