“Not being tense but ready.
Not thinking but not dreaming.
Not being set but flexible.
Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement.
It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come.”
―
Bruce Lee
“The essential quality of living life lies simply in the living.”
―
Bruce Lee
“Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.”
―
Bruce Lee
“A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence. ”
―
Bruce Lee
“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.”
―
Bruce Lee
“Many people dedicate their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like, rather than actualizing themselves.
This difference between self-actualization and self-image actualization is very important. Most people live only for their image”
―
Bruce Lee
“The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.”
―
Bruce Lee
“Using no way as way. Having no limitation as your only limitation.”
―
Bruce Lee
“Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-conciousness. Freedom discovers man the moment he loses concern over what impression he is making or about to make.”
―
Bruce Lee
“Use no way as way, make no limitation, limitation.”
―
Bruce Lee
“Using no way as a way, having no limitation as limitation.”
―
Bruce Lee
“All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.”
―
Bruce Lee
“The word "superstar" is an ilusion”
―
Bruce Lee
“A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.”
―
Bruce Lee
“The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.”
―
Bruce Lee