“Bring the mind into sharp focus and make it alert so that it can immediately intuit truth, which is everywhere. The mind must be emancipated from old habits, prejudices, restrictive thought processes and even ordinary thought itself.”
―
Bruce Lee
“Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.”
―
Bruce Lee
“The key to liberation is within. — Each man binds himself; the fetters are ignorance, laziness, preoccupation with self, and fear. He must liberate himself, while accepting the fact that we are of this world, so that “In summer we sweat; in winter we shiver.”
―
Bruce Lee
“The aim of education. — Education: to discover but not merely to imitate. Learning techniques without inward experiencing can only lead to superficiality.”
―
Bruce Lee
“Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.”
―
Bruce Lee
“Living exists when life lives through us … life is a living now!”
―
Bruce Lee
“Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure the difficult one”
―
Bruce Lee
“Only the self-sufficient stand alone - most people follow the crowd and imitate.”
―
Bruce Lee
“If you truly love life, don't waste time because time is what life is made of.”
―
Bruce Lee
“Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.”
―
Bruce Lee
“The ideal is unnatural naturalness, or natural unnaturalness. I mean it is a combination of both.
I mean here is natural instinct and here is control. You are to combine the two in harmony.
Not if you have one to the extreme, you'll be very unscientific.
If you have another to the extreme, you become, all of a sudden, a mechanical man
No longer a human being.
It is a successful combination of both.
That way it is a process of continuing growth.
Be water, my friend.”
―
Bruce Lee
“Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.”
―
Bruce Lee
“In order to control myself I must first accept myself by going with and not against my nature.”
―
Bruce Lee
“Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.”
―
Bruce Lee
“if you want to be immortal live a life worth remembering”
―
Bruce Lee
