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Hello, as someone said, "Everyday is a new beginning", I'm going to write short motivational blogs for you on daily basis, so that we can start living our lives to the fullest, together.

So, here I start with the Day 1.

A day started with smile and gratitude yields more contentment

I recently read the book Bruce Lee - A life from beginning to end by Hourly history

Bruce Lee aka Lee JunFan, a Chinese-American martial artist, actor, director, martial arts instructor and philosopher. He was the founder of Jeet Kune Do, a hybrid martial arts philosophy drawing from different combat disciplines that is often credited with paving the way for modern mixed martial arts.

 

Below are some of the quotes by Bruce Lee and takeaways :

“Don’t get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water. 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.”

“There is no such thing as maturity. There is instead an ever-evolving process of maturing.” 

“A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready. Not thinking, yet not dreaming. Ready for whatever may come. When the opponent expands, I contract; and when he contracts, I expand. And when there is an opportunity, ‘I’ do not hit, ‘it’ hits all by itself.”

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

“There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you. A man must constantly exceed his level.”

“In order to taste my cup of water you must first empty your cup. My friend, drop all your preconceived and fixed ideas and be neutral. Do you know why this cup is useful? Because it is empty.” 

“To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.”

“Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-consciousness. Freedom discovers man the moment he loses concern over what impression he is making or about to make.”

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

“All these years later, people still wonder about how Bruce died. I prefer to remember how he lived.” —Linda Lee Caldwell 

Wrapping up with my favorite quote by Bruce Lee -

“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.” 

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