Bruce Lee Quotes

“The ideal is unnatural naturalness, or natural unnaturalness. I mean it is a combination of both.
I mean here is natural instinct and here is control. You are to combine the two in harmony.
Not if you have one to the extreme, you'll be very unscientific.
If you have another to the extreme, you become, all of a sudden, a mechanical man
No longer a human being.
It is a successful combination of both.
That way it is a process of continuing growth.
Be water, my friend.”
― Bruce Lee , Bruce Lee: Artist of Life

“A conditioned mind is never a free mind.”
― Bruce Lee, Bruce Lee: Artist of Life

“Learn the principles, abide by the principles, and then dissolve the principles.”
― Bruce Lee, Bruce Lee: Artist of Life

“Any technique, however worthy and desirable, becomes a disease, when the mind is obsessed with it.”
― Bruce Lee, Bruce Lee: Artist of Life

“Ricorda, amico mio, che non è tanto importante quello che ti succede, ma come reagisci agli eventi.”
― Bruce Lee, Il Tao del Dragone: Verso la liberazione del corpo e dell'anima

“Relationship is a process of self-revelation.”
― Bruce Lee, Bruce Lee: Artist of Life

“To doubt is to think, and thought is the only thing in the universe whose existence cannot be denied, because to deny is to think.”
― Bruce Lee, Bruce Lee: Artist of Life

“When the ultimate perfection is attained, the body and limbs perform by themselves what is assigned to them to do with no interference from the mind. The”
― Bruce Lee, Bruce Lee: Artist of Life

“Life is something for which there is no answer; it must be understood from moment to moment.”
― Bruce Lee, Bruce Lee: Artist of Life

“The essential quality of living life lies simply in the living.”
― Bruce Lee, Bruce Lee: Artist of Life

“The more restricted a method, the lesser the opportunity for one's individual freedom of expression.”
― Bruce Lee, Bruce Lee: Artist of Life

“The less confident we are in ourselves, the less we are in touch with ourselves and the world, the more we want to control.”
― Bruce Lee, Bruce Lee Artist of Life: Inspiration and Insights from the World's Greatest Martial Artist

“Living exists when life lives through us … life is a living now!”
― Bruce Lee, Bruce Lee: Artist of Life

“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, Bruce Lee: Artist of Life

“if you are cursed with perfectionism, then you’re absolutely sunk. This ideal is a yardstick which always gives you the opportunity to browbeat yourself, to berate yourself and others. Since this ideal is an impossibility, you can never live up to it. You are merely in love with this ideal, and there is no end to the self-torture, to the self-nagging, self-castigating. It hides under the mask of “self-improvement.” It never works.”
― Bruce Lee, Bruce Lee: Artist of Life

“Self-will is the only virtue that takes no account of man-made laws. A self-willed man obeys a different law, the one law I hold absolutely sacred—the law in himself, his own “will.” What does self-willed mean? Does it not mean “having a will of one’s own?” The human herd instinct demands adaptation and subordination—but for his highest honor man elects not the meek, the pusillanimous, the supine, but precisely the self-willed man, the heroes.”
― Bruce Lee, Bruce Lee: Artist of Life

“Si corre un pericolo non da poco quando si sta troppo vicino al fiume di pensieri di un'altra persona, perchè più forte è la corrente e più è facile caderci dentro e venire trascinati lontano da sè stessi.”
― John Little, Bruce Lee: Artist of Life