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.

Set patterns, incapable of adaptability, of pliability, only offer a better cage. Truth is outside of all patterns.

True mastery transcends any particular art. It stems from mastery of oneself--the ability, developed through self-discipline, to be calm, fully aware, and completely in tune with oneself and the surroundings. Then, and only then, can a person know himself.

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.

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.

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

The More we value things, the less we value ourselves

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.

I am not afraid of a person who knows 10000 kicks. But I am afraid of a person who knows one kick but practices it for 10000 times.

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

Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.

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

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.

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

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

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

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.