“Just be ordinary and nothing special. Eat your food, move your bowels, pass water, and when you're tired, go and lie down. The ignorant will laugh at me, but the wise will understand.”
―
Bruce Lee
“Be like water making its way through crack.
Do not be assertive but adjust to the object and you shall find a way round it or through it.
If nothing within you stays rigid outward thigs will disclose themselves.
Moving be like water.
Still be like a mirror.
Respond like an echo.”
―
Bruce Lee
“Proprio come per mantenere una buona salute a volte bisogna prendere una medicina sgradevole, così per poter fare le cose che ci piacciono spesso bisogna fare qualcosa che non ci piace.”
―
Bruce Lee
“Reject external form that fails to express internal reality.”
―
Bruce Lee
“Learn the principles, abide by the principles, and then dissolve the principles.”
―
Bruce Lee
“If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done. Make at least one definite move daily toward you goal.”
―
Bruce Lee
“The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.”
―
Bruce Lee
“Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind
―
Bruce Lee
“Any technique, however worthy and desirable, becomes a disease, when the mind is obsessed with it.”
―
Bruce Lee
“Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.”
―
Bruce Lee
“But neither can you 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.”
―
Bruce Lee
“The man who is really serious, with the urge to find out what truth is, has no style at all. He lives only in what is.”
―
Bruce Lee
“The law of non-interference with nature. — The law of non-interference with nature is a basic principle of Taoism [stating] that one should be in harmony with, not rebellion against, the fundamental laws of the universe. Preserve yourself by following the natural bends of things and don’t interfere. Remember never to assert your self against nature; never be in frontal opposition to any problems, but to control it by swinging with it.”
―
Bruce Lee
“In order to control myself I must first accept myself by going with and not against my nature.”
―
Bruce Lee
“Absorb what is useful, discard what is useless and add what is specifically your own”
―
Bruce Lee
