Bruce Lee Quotes

The ancient human question 'Who am I?' leads inevitably to the equally important question 'Whose am I?' - for there is no self outside of relationship.

I just think that the only way we come to ourselves is through each other.

Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.

Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

Being in relationship with others helps us know ourselves better.

Each of us is living our own private journey, and the more we know about each other, the healthier and happier the world will be.

Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction, and certainly not in isolation.

Relationship is a mirror in which you can see yourself, not as you would wish to be, but as you are.

There is no other way to find ourselves but in each others faces.

They were each like a mirror for the other, reflecting the changes in themselves.

We have to listen to other people's stories. That's the thing. And that's the only way that we eventually get to know ourselves.

I AM! YOU ARE! AND LOVE: IS ALL: THAT MATTERS!

Self-knowledge involves relationship. To know oneself is to study one self in action with another person. Relationship is a process of self evaluation and self revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself - to be is to be related.

I can't be found in myself; I discover myself in others. That much is clear. And I suspect that I also love and care for myself in others.

Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.

What a powerful thing to know: That one's own desires are mappable onto strangers; that what one finds in oneself will most certainly be found in The Other.

Ask me not what I have, but what I am.

One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human.

I am a collection of thoughts and memories and likes and dislikes. I am the things that have happened to me and the sum of everything I've ever done. I am the clothes I wear on my back. I am every place and every person and every object I have ever come across. I am a bag of bones stuck to a very large rock spinning a thousand miles an hour.

One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.

It's the differences in people that help you realize who you are. Even if we silently pass each other on the street.

Life, is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming.

You are.

One of the big ways in which I felt my own writing life shaped by recovery had to do with my relationship to other people's stories. And one of the things I loved most about recovery was the way in which, in meetings and through fellowship, you are constantly kind of paying attention to lives outside of your own.