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“Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one”
― Bruce Lee

“Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.”
― Bruce Lee

“I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.”
― Bruce Lee

“Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.

Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. 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.”
― Bruce Lee

“Don't fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.”
― Bruce Lee, Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

“Be happy, but never satisfied.”
― Bruce Lee

“I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who had practiced one kick 10,000 times.”
― Bruce Lee

“A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.”
― Bruce Lee

“You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup. When you pour water in a bottle, it becomes the bottle. When you pour water in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can drip and it can crash. Become like water my friend.”
― Bruce Lee

“Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.”
― Bruce Lee

“If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.”
― Bruce Lee

“If you always put limits 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.”
― Bruce Lee

“A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.”
― Bruce Lee

“上士闻道，勤而行之；中士闻道，若存若亡；下士闻道，大笑之。不笑不足以为道。”
― 老子, Tao Te Ching

“道可道，非常道。名可名，非常名。”
― 老子, 道德经

“万物并作，吾以观复。”
― 老子, 老子

“企者不立，跨者不行。”
― 老子, Tao Te Ching

“多言数穷，不如守中”
― 老子, 道德经

“大道废，有仁义；智慧出，有大伪；六亲不和，有孝慈；国家昏乱，有忠臣。”
― 老子, 道德经

“为者败之，执者失之。”
― 老子, 道德经

“絶智棄辯, 民利百倍.”
― 老子

“道, 可道也, 非恒道也.”
― 老子

“持而盈之，不如其已；揣而锐之，不可长保。”
― 老子, 道德经