I always knew that Freud had plenty to say about the human condition, but when I found out that Bruce Lee did as well, I thought they were both worth sharing.
Bruce: Don’t get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.
Sigmund: Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.
BL: Absorb what is useful, discard what is useless and add what is specifically your own.
SF: From error to error, one discovers the entire truth.
BL: Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.
SF: A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes, but to get into accord with them; they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.
BL: The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.
SF: The only person with whom you have to compare yourself is you in the past.
BL: Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.
SF: The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.
BL: The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.
SF: Thought is action in rehearsal.
BL: If you don’t want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.
SF: In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart.
BL: If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
SF: The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
BL: To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.
SF: The more perfect a person is on the outside, the more demons they have on the inside.