Bruce Lee: Quotes about life
Bruce Lee was Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and filmmaker. Explore interesting quotes on life.
“Do not be concerned with escaping safely — lay your life before him.”
As quoted in Bruce Lee : Artist of Life (1999) edited by John R. Little, p. 192
Context: Forget about winning and losing; forget about pride and pain. Let your opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let him smash into your flesh and you fracture his bones; let him fracture your bones and you take his life. Do not be concerned with escaping safely — lay your life before him.
“Life is better lived than conceptualized.”
This writing can be less demanding should I allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I've come to understand that life is best to be lived — not to be conceptualized. If you have to think, you still do not understand.
Source: Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 45
Source: Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 11
Context: Be aware of doing your best to understand the ROOT in life, and realize the DIRECT and the INDIRECT are in fact a complementary WHOLE. It is to see things as they are and not to become attached to anything — to be unconscious meant to be innocent of the working of a relative (empirical) mind — where there is no abiding of thought anywhere on anything — this is being unbound. This not abiding anywhere is the root of our life.
Source: Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 44
Context: 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.
“If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.”
Source: Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 10; Here Lee paraphrases a much older English proverb: If you care for life, don't waste your time; for time is what life is made of. (as quoted in Bordighera and the Western Riviera (1883) by Frederick Fitzroy Hamilton, p. 189).
Context: Time means a lot to me because, you see, I, too, am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing and simplifying. If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.
Source: Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 3
Source: Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
“Life is wide, limitless. There is no border, no frontier.”
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Striking Thoughts (2000)
Source: Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 9
Source: Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 5
“Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.”
Source: Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 5
“The aphorism "as a man thinketh in his heart so is he" contains the secret of life.”
Source: Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 4; Lee here quotes Proverbs 23:7 "As he thinketh in his heart, so is he."
As quoted in Bruce Lee: Artist of Life (1999) edited by John R. Little, p. 192