Quotes from Bruce Lee

Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself - to be is to be related.

You and your opponent are one. There is a coexisting relationship between you. You coexist with your opponent and become his complement, absorbing his attack and using his force to overcome him.

Understanding comes about through feeling, from moment to moment in the mirror of relationship.

The martial arts are ultimately self-knowledge. A punch or a kick is not to knock the hell out of the guy in front, but to knock the hell out of your ego, your fear, or your hang-ups.

The possession of anything begins in the mind.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire.

All types of knowledge, ultimately mean self knowledge.

All knowledge leads to self-knowledge.

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.

All knowledge, is ultimately, self knowledge.

The knowledge and skills you have achieved are meant to be forgotten so you can float comfortably in emptiness, without obstruction.

Learning is definitely not mere imitation, nor is it the ability to accumulate and regurgitate fixed knowledge. Learning is a constant process of discovery - a process without end.

Even today, I dare not say that I have reached a state of achievement. I'm still learning, for learning is boundless.

I am not teaching you anything. I just help you to explore yourself.

Learning is never cumulative, it is a movement of knowing which has no beginning and no end.

I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged.

As you think, so shall you become.

Learning is a constant process of discovery - a process without end.

The most important thing to me is, how, in the process of learning how to use my body, can I come to understand myself ?

In order to taste my cup of water you must first empty your cup.

I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.

He who wants to succeed should learn how to fight, to strive and to suffer. You can acquire a lot in life, if you are prepared to give up a lot to get it.

If you knew you had to fight for your life tomorrow, would you change your training today?

Be happy, but never satisfied.