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.
— Tao of Jeet Kune Do
Set patterns, incapable of adaptability, of pliability, only offer a better cage. Truth is outside of all patterns.
— Tao of Jeet Kune Do
Don't fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
— Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.
— Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way
Effort within the mind further limits the mind, because effort implies struggle towards a goal and when you have a goal, a purpose, an end in view, you have placed a limit on the mind.
— Tao of Jeet Kune Do
A conditioned mind is never a free mind.
— Bruce Lee: Artist of Life
The essential quality of living life lies simply in the living.
— Bruce Lee: Artist of Life
If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow -- you are not understanding yourself.
— Tao of Jeet Kune Do
Relationship is understanding. It is a process of self-revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself -- to be is to be related.
— Tao of Jeet Kune Do
Satori - in the awakening from a dream. Awakening and self-realization and seeing into one's own being - these are synonymous.
— Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
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.
— Tao of Jeet Kune Do