Quotes from Bruce Lee

Can you look at a situation without naming it? Naming it, making it a word, causes fear.

Don't pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.

Let the spirit out - Discard all thoughts of reward, all hopes of praise and fears of blame, all awareness of one's bodily self. And, finally closing the avenues of sense perception, let the spirit out, as it will.

Life is never going to be all roses. You WILL have very challenging and difficult times! Pray to have the strength to endure. Our trials provide massive lessons for growth so don't pray for none. Some of these trials are really just big blessings in disguise!

You must accept the fact that there is no help but self-help. I cannot tell you how to gain freedom since freedom exists within you.

To express yourself in freedom, you must die to everything of yesterday. From the 'old', you derive security; from the 'new', you gain the flow.

When there is freedom from mechanical conditioning, there is simplicity.

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.

Art lives where absolute freedom is, because where it is not, there can be no creativity.

Seek freedom from the conformity of styles

If mere mechanical efficiency can make everyone a martial artist, then all is well. Unfortunately, combat, like freedom, is something that can not be preconceived.

The more complicated and restricted the method, the less opportunity for expression of one's original sense of freedom.

True observation begins when devoid of set patterns; freedom of expression occurs when one is beyond system.

Absorb what is useful, Discard what is not, Add what is uniquely your own.

Always be yourself, express yourself have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it .

Freedom discovers you the moment you lose concern of what impression you're making or about to make.

Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-consciousness. Freedom discovers man the moment he loses concern over what impression he is making or about to make.

The past is no more; the future not yet. Nothing exists except the here and now. Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at our hands.

The future looks extremely bright indeed, with lots of possibilities ahead -- big possibilities. Like the song says, We've just begun.

Make at least one definite move daily toward your goal.

All goals apart from the means are illusions; becoming is a denial of being.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire: In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.