107 quotes
Choose the positive. — You have choice — you are master of your attitude — choose the POSITIVE, the CONSTRUCTIVE. Optimism is a faith that leads to success.
Striking Thoughts (2000)
Life lives; and in the living flow, no questions are raised. The reason is that life is a living now! So, in order to live life whole-heartedly, the answer is life simply is.
Striking Thoughts (2000)
I have changed from self-image actualization to self-actualization, from blindly following propaganda, organized truths, etc. to searching internally for the cause of my ignorance.
The Warrior Within: The Philosophies of Bruce Lee (1996)
You cannot force the Now. — But can you neither condemn nor justify and yet be extraordinarily alive as you walk on? You can never invite the wind, but you must leave the window open.
Striking Thoughts (2000)
Under the sky, under the heavens, there is but one family. It just so happens that people are different.
Voidness is that which stands right in the middle between this and that. The void is all-inclusive; having no opposite, there is nothing which it excludes or opposes. The all illuminating light shines and is beyond the movement of the opposites.
Striking Thoughts (2000)
Don't think, feel....it is like a finger pointing a way to the moon. Don't concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory!
Bruce Lee: Enter the Dragon (1973)
Cease negative mental chattering. — If you think a thing is impossible, you'll make it impossible. Pessimism blunts the tools you need to succeed.
Striking Thoughts (2000)
Faith is a state of mind that can be conditioned through self-discipline. Faith will accomplish.
Jeet Kune Do (1997)
The change is from inner to outer. — We start by dissolving our attitude not by altering outer conditions.
Striking Thoughts (2000)
Conditioning obstructs our view of reality. — We do not see IT in its suchness because of our indoctrination, crooked and twisted.
Striking Thoughts (2000)
Life is wide, limitless. There is no border, no frontier.
Striking Thoughts (2000)
You must have complete determination.
The Warrior Within: The Philosophies of Bruce Lee (1996)
To grow, to discover, we need involvement, which is something I experience every day — sometimes good, sometimes frustrating. No matter what, you must let your inner light guide you out of the darkness.
The Warrior Within: The Philosophies of Bruce Lee (1996)
The Moment is freedom. — I couldn't live by a rigid schedule. I try to live freely from moment to moment, letting things happen and adjusting to them.
Striking Thoughts (2000)
An instructor should exemplify the things he seeks to teach. It will be of great advantage if you yourself can do all you ask of your students and more.
Jeet Kune Do (1997)
The timeless moment. — The "moment" has no yesterday or tomorrow. It is not the result of thought and therefore has no time.
Striking Thoughts (2000)
To be perfectly frank, I really do not.
The Warrior Within: The Philosophies of Bruce Lee (1996)
Jeet Kune Do favors formlessness so that it can assume all forms and since Jeet Kune Do has no style, it can fit in with all styles. As a result, Jeet Kune Do utilizes all ways and is bound by none and, likewise, uses any techniques which serve its end.
Tao of Jeet Kune Do (1975)
If thought exists, I who think and the world about which I think also exist; the one exists but for the other, having no possible separation between them.
Striking Thoughts (2000)