Bruce Lee

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Quotes...

• “Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.”
• “I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.”
• “Absorb what is useful, discard what is useless and add what is specifically your own.”
• “Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.”
• “Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.”
  
• “If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.”
  
• “Self-knowledge involves relationship. To know oneself is to study one self in action with another person. Relationship is a process of self evaluation and self revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself – to be is to be related.”
• “The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.”
• “Fear comes from uncertainty; we can eliminate the fear within us when we know ourselves better.“
• “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.”
• “Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are the weeds that strangle confidence.”
• “Only the self-sufficient stand alone – most people follow the crowd and imitate.”
• “Life is limited only by how we really see ourselves and feel about our being. A great deal of pure self-knowledge and inner understanding allows us to lay an all-important foundation for the structure of our life from which we can perceive and take the right avenues.”

Poems...
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.

Who am I?
Who am I?
That is the age-old question
Asked by every man
At one time or another.

Though he looks into a mirror
And recognizes the face,
Though he knows his own name
And age and history,
Still he wonders, deep down,
Who am I?

Am I a giant among men,
Master of all I survey,
Or an ineffectual pygmy
Who clumsily blocks his own way?

Am I the self-assured gentleman
With a winning style,
The natural born leader
Who makes friends instantly,
Or the frightened heart
Tiptoeing among strangers,
Who, behind a frozen smile, trembles
Like a little boy lost in a dark forest?

Most of us yearn to be one,
But fear we are the other.
Yet we CAN be
What we aspire to be.

Those who cultivate
Their natural instincts,
Who set their sights
On the good, the admirable, the excellent,
And believe they can achieve it
Will find their confidence rewarded.

And, in the process,
They will discover the true identity
Of him who looks back from the mirror.

“If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life.

There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.”

Quote by Bruce Lee