{"author":"Bruce Lee","author_id":"Bruce+Lee","total_quotes":62,"quotes":[{"text":"The essential quality of living life lies simply in the living.","author":"Bruce Lee","tags":["life","living"],"id":3074,"author_id":"Bruce+Lee"},{"text":"Satori - in the awakening from a dream. Awakening and self-realization and seeing into one's own being - these are synonymous.","author":"Bruce Lee","tags":["awakening","enlightenment","self-realization","spirituality"],"id":6184,"author_id":"Bruce+Lee"},{"text":"You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.","author":"Bruce Lee","tags":["fame"],"id":9829,"author_id":"Bruce+Lee"},{"text":"Relationship is understanding. It is a process of self-revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself -- to be is to be related.","author":"Bruce Lee","tags":["mirror","relationships","self-revelation","soul","soulmates","understanding"],"id":13640,"author_id":"Bruce+Lee"},{"text":"Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round 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.","author":"Bruce Lee","tags":["be-like-water","bruce-lee","changes","evolve","find-your-way","fluid","growth","jewels-for-the-mind","knowledge","lee","martial-arts","philosophy","water","wisdom"],"id":18163,"author_id":"Bruce+Lee"},{"text":"To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.","author":"Bruce Lee","tags":["self-knowledge"],"id":26308,"author_id":"Bruce+Lee"},{"text":"Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.","author":"Bruce Lee","tags":["success","be yourself "],"id":26532,"author_id":"Bruce+Lee"},{"text":"In Buddhism, there is no place for using effort. Just be ordinary and nothing special. Eat your food, move your bowels, pass water and when you're tired go and lie down. The ignorant will laugh at me, but the wise will understand.","author":"Bruce Lee","tags":["buddhism"],"id":28517,"author_id":"Bruce+Lee"},{"text":"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.","author":"Bruce Lee","tags":["life","work","limits "],"id":53405,"author_id":"Bruce+Lee"},{"text":"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.","author":"Bruce Lee","tags":["bruce-lee","martial-arts","philosophy","politics"],"id":54074,"author_id":"Bruce+Lee"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":62,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}