Bruce Lee Quotes

When you are in the now, you can’t be anxious, because the excitement flows immediately into ongoing spontaneous activity.

When you are awake, you must be fully awake and conscious about everything. This is a wonderful exercise.

When there is a particle of dust in your eye, the world becomes a narrow path – have your mind completely free from objects – and how much this life expands.

When one wishes to expand, one must first contract. When one wishes to be strong, one must first be weak. When one wishes to take, one must first give. Everything in this world has the alternative of existence and nonexistence (positive and negative).

When one is not expressing himself, he is not free.

When my tutor assisted me in choosing my courses, he advised me to take up philosophy because of my inquisitiveness. He said, “philosophy will tell you what man lives for”.

When man comes to a conscious vital realization of those great spiritual forces within himself and begins to use those forces in science, in business, and in life, his progress in the future will be unparalleled.

When a man seeks your advice he generally wants your praise.

When a man has confidence in himself, when all he wants in the world is to live out his destiny in freedom and purity, he comes to regard all those vastly overestimated and far too costly possessions as mere accessories, pleasant perhaps to have and make use of, but never essential.

Whatever your problems happen to be in the future, remember well that they cannot remain stationary but must move together with your living spirit. Otherwise, you will drift into artificiality or attempt to solidify the ever-flowing. To avoid that, you must change and be flexible. Remember, the usefulness of a cup is in its emptiness.

What’s amiss I’ll stop to mend, and endure what can’t be mended.

What you habitually think largely determines what you will ultimately become.