Within the pages of Bruce Lee’s Striking Thoughts, you will find the secrets of Bruce Lee’s amazing success— as an actor, martial artist, and inspiration to the world. Consisting of eight sections, Striking Thoughts covers 72 topics and 825 aphorisms which Bruce lived by. From spirituality to personal liberation and from family life to filmmaking this book holds Bruce Lee’s wisdom for daily living.
Bruce Lee’s ideas helped energize his life and career, and made it possible for him to live a an assured life, allowing him to overcome difficult obstacles. His ideas inspired his family, friends, students, and colleagues, helping them to achieve success in their own lives and this personal collection will impart his wisdom to you in your life’s journey.
Sections include:
- On First Principles—including life, existence, time, and death
- On Being Human—including the mind, happiness, fear, and dreams
- On Matters of Existence—health, love, marriage, raising children, ethics, racism, and adversity
- On Achievement—work, goals, faith, success, money, and fame
- On Art and Artists—art, filmmaking, and acting
- On Personal Liberation—conditioning, Zen Buddhism, meditation, and freedom
- On the Process of Becoming—self-actualization, self-help, self-expression, and growth
- On Ultimate (Final) Principles—Yin-yang, totality, Tao, and the truth
This Bruce Lee Book is part of the Bruce Lee Library which also features:
- Bruce Lee: The Celebrated Life of the Golden Dragon
- Bruce Lee: The Tao of Gung Fu
- Bruce Lee: Artist of Life
- Bruce Lee: Letters of the Dragon
- Bruce Lee: The Art of Expressing the Human Body
- Bruce Lee: Jeet Kune Do
About the Author
John Little is considered to be one of the world’s foremost authorities on Bruce Lee. He’s the only person who has ever been authorized to review the entirety of Lee’s personal notes, sketches and reading annotations, giving him an insider’s look at Lee’s training methods and philosophies. He’s shared this information with Lee’s fans in his books published by Tuttle Publishing, including: Bruce Lee: Artist of Life; Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee’s Commentaries on the Martial Way; Letters of the Dragon; The Tao of Gung Fu: A Study in the Way of Chinese Martial Art; Bruce Lee: The Art of Expressing the Human Body and Bruce Lee: The Celebrated Life of the Golden Dragon.
Reviews
“…Bruce Lee books are now also available in ebook format…That’s great, it’s nice if you’re traveling to take everything with you in one little small container so-to-speak.” —Martial Thoughts Podcast
“Since he himself would not wholly accept any particular style of martial art or philosophy, Bruce encouraged his students not to accept, without question, his teachings. His main message was to keep one’s mind, attitude, and senses pliable and receptive,
“He was a teacher first of all. He taught philosophy and tried to spread knowledge and wisdom…The integrity with which Bruce Lee lived his life and tried to uphold what he believed to be right—that is a clear example of how it ought to be don
“I thought Bruce was a brilliant, fine philosopher about everyday living. He was very much into finding out who he was. His comment to people was ‘Know yourself.’ The good head that he acquired was through his knowing himself. He and I used to have great
“Bruce’s philosophy seemed always to be going back to the Zen origins, where contradictory advice states the simplest of truths. Bruce’s lessons were lessons without being lessons; he was not a teacher, yet he was the greatest teacher I’ve ever known.” &#
“For every question you asked him he would never have to think about it, he would just blurt it right out. Bruce would cover every point with a little saying. If he would see that you were having trouble with something, he would always know just what to t
“We’d work out for an hour, then we’d talk for an hour about a lot of things. He didn’t separate life from the extension in his arm. And he is the only one I know of that carried it to the point of real art.” —James Coburn
“In the collection of his writings ‘Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee’s Wisdom for Daily Living,’ Lee explains that there is a difference between the fulfillment of one’s desires and the fulfillment of how one desires to appear to the world…”
