Bruce Lee

“Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.”

“Be self aware, rather than a repetitious robot”

“You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup. When you pour water in a bottle, it becomes the bottle. When you pour water in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can drip and it can crash. Become like water my friend.”

“Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.”

“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!!”

“The word "superstar" is an ilusion”

“water is fearless,you put water into a cup,it becomes the cup ,you put water into a teapot it becomes the teapot,water can flow drip ,creap,or crash!”

“Using no way as a way, having no limitation as limitation.”

“If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.”

“Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.”

“I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.”

“The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.”

“Don't fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.”

“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.”

“If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.”

“Now I see that I will never find the lightUnless, like the candle, I am my own fuel,Consuming myself.”

“A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence. ”

“A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.”

“Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.”

“A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.”

“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.”

“Everything you do, if not in a relaxed state will be done at a lesser level than you are proficient. Thus the tensed expert marksman will aim at a level less than his/her student.”

“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.”

“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.”

“It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.”

“I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who had practiced one kick 10,000 times.”

“Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.”

“Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.”

“A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.”

“Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.”

“To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.”

“Time means a lot to me because you see I am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing.”

“Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.”

“The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.”

“The stillness in stillness is not the real stillness; only when there is stillness in movement does the universal rhythm manifest.”

“The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.”

“Boards don't hit back.”

“Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.”

“Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”

“Be happy, but never satisfied.”

“Not being tense but ready.Not thinking but not dreaming.Not being set but flexible.Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement.It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come.”

“Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.”

“The doubters said, "Man can not fly," The doers said, "Maybe, but we'll try," And finally soared In the morning glow While non-believers Watched from below.”

“Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one”