107 quotes
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.
Striking Thoughts (2000)
A self-willed man obeys a different law, the one law I, too, hold absolutely sacred — the human law in himself, his own individual will.
Striking Thoughts (2000)
The intangible represents the real power of the universe. It is the seed of the tangible.
Jeet Kune Do (1997)
If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo.
Striking Thoughts (2000)
What can you take from me which is not already yours?
The Warrior Within: The Philosophies of Bruce Lee (1996)
Flow in the living moment. — We are always in a process of becoming and NOTHING is fixed.
Striking Thoughts (2000)
A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.
Striking Thoughts (2000)
Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.
Striking Thoughts (2000)
Concentration is the ROOT of all the higher abilities in man.
Striking Thoughts (2000)
Of course you’re there. Death is always there.
The Warrior Within: The Philosophies of Bruce Lee (1996)
Taoist philosophy … is essentially monistic. … Matter and energy, Yang and Yin, heaven and earth, are conceived of as essentially one or as two coexistent poles of one indivisible whole.
Striking Thoughts (2000)
Be aware of doing your best to understand the ROOT in life, and realize the DIRECT and the INDIRECT are in fact a complementary WHOLE.
Striking Thoughts (2000)
Knowledge, surely, is always of time, whereas knowing is not of time. Knowledge is from a source, from accumulation, from conclusion, while knowing is a movement.
Striking Thoughts (2000)
Fluidity is the way to an empty mind. You must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying.
Striking Thoughts (2000)
Research your own experience; absorb what is useful, reject what is useless and add what is essentially your own.
Striking Thoughts (2000)
To contemplate a thing implies maintaining oneself OUTSIDE it, resolved to keep a distance between it and ourselves.
The Warrior Within: The Philosophies of Bruce Lee (1996)
Using no way as way; Having no limitation as limitation.
The Warrior Within: The Philosophies of Bruce Lee (1996)
Balance your thoughts with action. — If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.
Striking Thoughts (2000)
Do not be concerned with escaping safely — lay your life before him.
I do not think unless I think of things — and there I find myself.
Striking Thoughts (2000)