Bruce Lee Quotes

Everybody keeps falling back to the same patterns without doing too much dramaturgy.

Those who shun the whimsy of things will experience rigor mortis before death.

Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered

I mean, it's real hard to be free when you are bought and sold in the marketplace.

You have to shrink yourself to fit into this little life with him.

The experience of life teaches us that being like someone in love is more real, because everything is uncertain.

The stellar universe is not so difficult to understand as the real actions of other people, especially of the people with whom we are in love.

Once you start compromising your thoughts, you're a candidate for mediocrity.

Purpose, pattern, and people, the three P's at the heart of life.

If you have any notion of where you are going, you will never get anywhere.

Education makes a straight ditch of a free meandering brook.

Slavery is so intolerable a condition that the slave can hardly escape deluding himself into thinking that he is choosing to obey his master's commands when, in fact, he is obliged to. Most slaves of habit suffer from this delusion and so do some writers, enslaved by an all too personal style.

People dislike uncertainty so much that they will impose an order on it even when it doesn't exist.

America is neither free nor brave, but a land of tight, iron-clanking little wills, everybody trying to put it over everybody else, and a land of men absolutely devoid of the real courage of trust, trust in life's sacred spontaneity. They can't trust life until they can control it.

Real isn't what they try to tell you. Time isn't. Grown-ups hammer down all these markers, bells, schedules, coffee-breaks, to stake down time so you'll start believing it's something small and mean, something that scrapes flake after flake off of everything you love till there's nothing left; to stake you down so you don't lift off and fly away, somersaulting through whirlpools of months, skimming through eddies of glittering seconds, pouring handfuls of hours over your upturned face.

Unquestioning obedience is for slaves, the uneducated and the pathetic.

Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.

We're not just somebody's girlfriend who smiles all the time and bakes cookies and always has lingerie ready and their hair done. That's not real. The roles that I play are about bringing as much reality into it as possible.

I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.

Love is real, real is love, Love is feeling, feeling love, Love is wanting to be loved. Love is touch, touch is love, Love is reaching, reaching love, Love is asking to be loved. Love is you, You and me, Love is knowing, We can be. Love is free, free is love, Love is living, living love, Love is needing to be loved.

Human beings are free except when humanity needs them.

What shall we think of a well-adjusted slave?

Happy slaves are the bitterest enemies of freedom.

If, by happiness, you mean the absence of adversity I and all fabricants are the happiest stratum in corpocracy as genomicists insist. However, if happiness means the conquest of adversity or a sense of purpose, or the xercise of one’s will to power, then of all Nea So Copros’s slaves we surely are the most miserable.

True, it is evil that a single man should crush the herd, but see not there the worse form of slavery, which is when the herd crushes out the man.