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.
Here I am as a human being...how can I express myself, totally and completely?
The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.
The best form of endurance exercise is the performance of the event.
All martial art is simply an honest expression of one's body — with a lot of deception in between.
You know what I want to think of myself? As a human being. Because, I mean I don't want to be like "As Confucius say," but under the sky, under the heavens there is but one family. It just so happens man that people are different.
After all, all knowledge simply means self-knowledge.
From form to formless and from finite to infinite
I hope martial artists are more interested in the root of martial arts and not the different decorative branches, flowers or leaves.
Good technique includes quick changes, great variety and speed. It may be a system of reversals much like a concept of God and the Devil. In the speed of events, which one is really in charge? Do they change places with lightning speed? The Chinese believe so. To put the heart of the martial arts in your own heart and have it be a part of you means total comprehension.
As long as we separate this oneness into two we won't achieve realization.
The martial arts are based upon understanding, hard work and a total comprehension of skills. Power training and the use of force are easy, but total comprehension of all of the skills of the martial arts is very difficult to achieve.
My style? You can call it the art of fighting without fighting.
A good martial artist does not become tend but ready, not thinking but jet not dreaming. Ready for whatever may come.
All knowledge, is ultimately, self knowledge.
The intangible represents the real power of the universe. It is the seed of the tangible.
Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth.
I think of myself as a human being.
The primary Reality is not what I think, but that I live, for those also live who do not think.
I don't know what is the meaning of death, but I am not afraid to die - and I go on, non-stop, going forward with life. Even though I, Bruce Lee, may die some day without fulfilling all of my ambitions, I will have no regrets. I did what I wanted to do and what I've done, I've done with sincerity and to the best of my ability. You can't expect much more from life.
Know the difference between a catastrophe and an inconvenience. - To realize that it's just an inconvenience, that it is not a catastrophe, but just an unpleasantness, is part of coming into your own, part of waking up.
There's so much myth and baloney. Like a 80-year-old man able to manhandle a 300-pounder with his little finger. Ridiculous. Or this matter of breaking bricks and boards wth the edge of your hand. Now I ask you, did you ever see a brick or a board pick a fight with anybody?
If people say Jeet Kune Do is different from this or from that, then let the name of Jeet Kune Do be wiped out, for that is what it is, just a name. Please don't fuss over it.
The timeless moment. - The "moment" has no yesterday or tomorrow. It is not the result of thought and therefore has no time.
It is true that the mental aspect of kung-fu is the desired end; however, to achieve this end, technical skill must come first.
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