“Many people dedicate their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like, rather than actualizing themselves.
This difference between self-actualization and self-image actualization is very important. Most people live only for their image”
―
Bruce Lee
“There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you.”
―
Bruce Lee
Action is a highroad to self-esteem.”
―
Bruce Lee
“All knowledge leads to self-knowledge.”
―
Bruce Lee
“To doubt is to think, and thought is the only thing in the universe whose existence cannot be denied, because to deny is to think.”
―
Bruce Lee
“If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.”
―
Bruce Lee
“If there is a God, he is within. You don't ask God to give you things, you depend on God for your inner theme.”
―
Bruce Lee
“Having totality means being capable of following "what is," because "what is" is constantly moving and constantly changing. If one is anchored to a particular view, one will not be able to follow the swift movement of "what is.”
―
Bruce Lee
“Practice makes perfect. After a long time of practicing, our work will become natural, skillfull, swift, and steady.”
―
Bruce Lee
“Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. Be water, my friend.”
―
Bruce Lee
“showing off is the fools's idea of glory.”
―
Bruce Lee
“Obey the principles without being bound by them.”
―
Bruce Lee
“If you want to learn to swim jump into the water. On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you.”
―
Bruce Lee
“When the ultimate perfection is attained, the body and limbs perform by themselves what is assigned to them to do with no interference from the mind.
―
Bruce Lee
“The disease of philosophy. - Philosophy is itself the disease for which it pretends to be the cure: the wise man does not pursue wisdom but lives his life, and therein precisely does his wisdom lie.”
―
Bruce Lee
