Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts

Bruce Lee’s use of aphorism generally consists of starting with a familiar and

The way of death. — Through the ages, the end for heroes is the same as for ordinary men. They all died and gradually faded away in the memory of man.

The life of perfection is the simple life. — A simple life is one of plainness, in which profit is discarded, cleverness abandoned, selfishness eliminated, and desires reduced. It is the life of perfection which seems to be incomplete, and of fullness which seems to be empty. It is the life which is as bright as light, but does not dazzle. In short

important aspect of life, then positioning it to awaken people to the problems inherent in the conventional assumptions made on the topic. The result of Lee’s statement is that the reader is now compelled to think for himself about the issue, which leads the individual to produce his own answer. Lee always challenged his students (both in the class

The secret of life. — The aphorism “as a man thinketh in his heart so is he”* contains the secret of life. James Allen further added “A man is literally what he thinks.” This might be a shocking statement, but everything is a state of mind.

traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a pattern of systems.

To Bruce Lee, philosophy was not the professional playground of academics, but every human being’s gateway to the greatest adventure of the human spirit.

Pliability is life. — Be pliable. When a man is living, he is soft and pliable; when he is dead, he becomes rigid. Pliability is life; rigidity is death, whether one speaks of man’s body, his mind, or his spirit.

constancy, enlightenment, peace, and long life.