Bruce Lee

Obey the principles without being bound by them.

Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.

If you always put limit 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.

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

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

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

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

I'm moving and not moving at all. I'm like the moon underneath the waves that ever go on rolling and rocking. It is not, "I am doing this," but rather, an inner realization that "this is happening through me," or "it is doing this for me." The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action.

Bring the mind into sharp focus and make it alert so that it can immediately intuit truth, which is everywhere. The mind must be emancipated from old habits, prejudices, restrictive thought processes and even ordinary thought itself.

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.

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.

We [tend to] have more faith in what we imitate than in what we originate. We [often feel that we] cannot derive a sense of absolute certitude from anything which has its root in us. The most poignant sense of insecurity comes from standing alone; we are not alone when we imitate.

In Buddhism, there is no place for using effort. 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.

The More we value things, the less we value ourselves

As long as I can remember I feel I have had this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. My brain becomes magnetized with this dominating force which I hold in my hand.

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 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 nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo.

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

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.