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  • "If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of." - Bruce Lee

  • Sometimes, we are blessed with people who can change the world for better.

  • One of them was Lee Jun-fan, one of the most, if not the most, influential martial artists of all time.

  • He's better known as Bruce Lee.

  • Many people think of him just as a martial artist who made movies.

  • And that's true, but he was way more than that.

  • He was also a filmmaker, a philosopher, a poet and also the founder of Jeet Kune Do.

  • He believed that any knowledge ultimately led to self-knowledge, which is the ultimate goal.

  • His chosen method of self-expression was martial arts. What is yours?

  • Learn about you. Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.

  • And what if life is difficult? Bruce Lee used to say: Do not pray for an easy life,

  • pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.

  • And he practiced what he preached, his life wasn't an easy one.

  • In 1959, at the age of 18, Lee came to the United States with only a $100 in his pocket.

  • He worked hard and he made it. To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities, he said.

  • He always believed we were able to do the same.

  • So go out, and create your own opportunities.

  • He wasn't afraid to be himself, and he always encourage others to be themselves,

  • Be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself,

  • do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. Be you.

  • As he once said:

  • I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.

  • So, live the life you want. Make it a good one.

  • The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

  • 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.

  • Maybe we should all follow his ideology of "the style of no style".

  • Get rid of the formalised approach.

  • The idea of his martial art was to exist outside of parameters and limitations.

  • His Jeet Kune Do emblem displays the message:

  • "Using no way as way" and "Having no limitations as limitation".

  • Let's do something about it. Right now.

  • Because knowing is not enough, we must apply.

  • Willing is not enough, we must do.

  • If you spend too much time thinking about a thing,

  • you'll never get it done.

  • Bruce Lee was an example of living. Of accomplishment. And that anything is possible.

  • Just believe in yourself. He showed us the path by example.

  • Faith makes it possible to achieve that which man's mind can conceive and believe.

  • Be water, my friend.

"If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of." - Bruce Lee

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