Bruce Lee Quotes

I've always been able to put things in perspective.

Keep in mind that no matter how perfectly you get your life in order, you will never be rid of all your problems. Problems are a way of life, always have been, always will be. But how you elect to view those problems is all up to you.

I have learned how to better handle things as they come.

You have to have the lows in your life so you can deal with them.

I'm very very happy for my hardships and misfortunes: they build character and make you a better person. Even if I think it's something you have to carry with you, it's definitely something that makes you more empathic towards other people, makes you understand people and relationships so much better.

If I ever feel like, 'Oh, my life!' or get upset by silly things like a photographer, or if someone has written something nasty that's upset me, I just think, 'Worse things happen at sea.'

We are all products of our experiences, good and bad. Sometimes you learn as much from the negative experiences as you do from the positive.

A master blesses calamity, for the master knows that from the seeds of disaster (and all experience) comes the growth of self.

Know the difference between a catastrophe and an inconvenience.

When things get difficult it can be easy to complain. How you respond makes all the difference

If things don't go fantastically, you just have to deal with it.

Perspective is everything when you are experiencing the challenges of life.

Every time I am stuck in traffic, stub my toe, get a middle seat on the flight, I just remember how all of this is just a blip in the radar of my life.

What makes most of us who we are most of all is not our minds and not our bodies and not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.

Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.

Life's too short not to laugh about yourself and the cards you're dealt.

My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway.

I think life throws enough curveballs that you shouldn't make such a big deal out of everything.

Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.

I didn't lead a very wise life, myself, but it was a full one and a grown-up one. You come of age very quickly through shipwreck and disaster.

As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions has been a solace in adversity and added zest to the enjoyment of prosperity.

I'm not cynical or bitter in any way. Life's too short; you get ripped off, but if you hold a grudge, it's going to affect you. You take it on the chin, you learn, you try not to make the same mistakes.

When you're younger - duh - you don't really have the tools to deal with certain things in your life.

You have to know how to keep things in perspective.

When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.