Book detail: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living is presented as a focused source page for quotations connected with this book, collection, transcript, or source record.
Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts is a collection of Bruce Lee's profound reflections on life, philosophy, and self-improvement. The book delves into his approach to martial arts, personal growth, and the principles that guided his life. It offers readers a glimpse into the mind of one of the most influential martial artists and thinkers of the 20th century, providing wisdom for daily living and personal development.
The quotes below use the same card format as the rest of the site, including topics, source notes, copy actions, image creation, and sharing controls.
Read more
“To live is a constant process of relating, so come on out of that shell of isolation and conclusion, and relate DIRECTLY to what is being said. Bear in mind I seek neither your approval nor to influence you. So do not make up your mind as to "this is this" or "that is that." I will be more than satisfied if you begin to learn to investigate everything yourself from now on.”
Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
“Prosperity is apt to prevent us from examining our conduct; but adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is beneficial to us.”
Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
“Self-will seems to be the only virtue that takes no account of man-made laws.”
Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
“Don't be forecasting evil unless it is what you can guard against. Anxiety is good for nothing if we can't turn it into a defense.”
Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
“Everybody has to think for himself. A right way for a big man may not be a right way for a small man. A right way for someone who is slow may not be a right way for someone who is quick. Each person must understand his weaknesses and his strengths.”
Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
“Fluidity is the way to an empty mind. You must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying.”
Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
“Conditioning obstructs our view of reality. We do not see IT in its suchness because of our indoctrination, crooked and twisted.”
Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
“The change is from inner to outer. We start by dissolving our attitude not by altering outer conditions.”
Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
“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.”
Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
“A self-willed man obeys a different law, the one law I, too, hold absolutely sacred the human law in himself, his own individual will.”
Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
“The Now is indivisible. Completeness, the now, is an absence of the conscious mind to strive to divide that which is indivisible. For once the completeness of things is taken apart it is no longer complete.”
Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
“To realize freedom the mind has to learn to look at life, which is a vast movement, without the bondage of time , for freedom lies beyond the field of consciousness care for watching, but don't stop and interpret "I am free," then you're living in a memory of something that has gone before.”
Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
“Satori - in the awakening from a dream. Awakening and self-realization and seeing into one's own being - these are synonymous.”
Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
“Bring the mind to a sharp focus and make it alert so that it can immediately intuit truth, which is everywhere.”
Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
“Be a practical dreamer backed by action.”
Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
“when one is not expressing himself, he is not free. thus, he begins to struggle and the struggle breeds methodical routine. Soon, he is doing his methodical routine as response rather than responding to what is.”
Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
“Taoist philosophy is essentially monistic. Matter and energy, Yang and Yin, heaven and earth, are conceived of as essentially one or as two coexistent poles of one indivisible whole.”
Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
“Concepts vs. self-actualization. - Instead of dedicating your life to actualize a concept of what you should be like, ACTUALIZE YOURSELF. The process of maturing does not mean to become a captive of conceptualization. It is to come to the realization of what lies in our innermost selves.”
Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
“Be a calm beholder of what is happening around you.”
Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
“The happiness that is derived from excitement is like a brilliant fire- soon it will go out.”
Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
“Reality is apparent when one ceases to compare.”
Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
“Concentration is the root of all the higher abilities in man.”
Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
“Ultimately the greatest help is self-help.”
Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
“Have no rigid system in you, and you'll be flexible to change with the ever changing.”
Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
“Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself - to be is to be related.”
Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
“What comes after victory? Why do people value victory so much? What is 'glory'? What kind of victory is 'glorious'?”
Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
“The unconditioned mind intuits truth.”
Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
“Flow in the living moment - We are always in a process of becoming and nothing is fixed.”
Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
“Art is the way to the absolute and to the essence of human life.”
Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
“Voidness is that which stands right in the middle between this and that.”
Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
“Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.”
Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
“If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.”
Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
“A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.”
Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
“Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.”
Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
“If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.”
Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
“Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.”
Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
“To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.”
Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
“Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.”
Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
“Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.”
Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
“If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo.”
Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
“To spend time is to pass it in a specified manner. To waste time is to expend it thoughtlessly or carelessly. We all have time to either spend or waste and it is our decision what to do with it. But once passed, it is gone forever.”
Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
“A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.”
Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
“Now I see that I will never find the light Unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel, Consuming myself.”
Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
“If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.”
Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
“The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.”
Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
“You cannot force the Now. — But can you neither 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.”
Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
“For it is easy to criticize and break down the spirit of others, but to know yourself takes a lifetime.”
Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
“Linda and I aren't one and one. We are two halves that make a whole -- two halves fitted together are more efficient than either half would ever be alone!”
Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
“Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo.”
Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
“Those who are unaware they are walking in darkness will never seek the light.”
Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living