Souvenirs Of A Lion Heart Girl

"I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude"

— Bruce Lee

"As you think, so shall you become."

— Bruce Lee

"Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable."

— Bruce Lee

"Because one does not want to be disturbed, to be made uncertain, he establishes a pattern of conduct, of thought, a pattern of relationship to man etc. Then he becomes a slave to the pattern and takes the pattern to be the real thing."

— Bruce Lee

"Learning is never cumulative, it is a movement of knowing which has no beginning and no end."

— Bruce Lee

"When there is freedom from mechanical conditioning, there is simplicity. The classical man is just a bundle of routine, ideas and tradition. If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow – you are not understanding yourself."

— Bruce Lee

Random Notes

Truth is living and, therefore, changing.

You must let your inner light guide you out of the darkness.

Proverbs 23:7 “As he thinketh in his heart, so is he.”

I try to live freely from moment to moment, just letting things happen and adapting.

"All types of knowledge, ultimately mean self knowledge."

— Bruce Lee: The Lost Interview (1971

"Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love."

— Rumi

"Surround yourself with those who can push you to your limits, who can challenge you to be everything you can be and more."

— David Wolfe