A.J. Darkholme Quotes

“Love is one of the most motivating and self-defining forces in our lives, whether we turn from it or allow ourselves to be drawn to it. If you allow romantic possibilities with others to consume all your time and energy, they will distract you from the things of interest that fill your life with passion and purpose.”

Love Life Romance Purpose Motivation Passion Energy Relationships Acceptance Denial Meaning Potential Time Management Distraction Forces Of Nature Life Defining

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“If you plan for failure, then you are expecting to fail. If you plan for success, you’ll be successful. Once you start making a ‘Plan B’, you distract from ‘Plan A’, and the moment you start believing there are other options, you start settling for less.”

Success Leadership Leader Focus Plans Dreams Awareness Acceptance Failure Expectations Determination Settling Paths Leading

Book:Rise of the Morningstar

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“They say you can’t change the past despite the fact it never stops changing you – but that doesn't mean we have to sit back and take it. It may change us, but we have ultimate control over how we let it.”

Past Change Acceptance Self Awareness Control Self Control

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“Never give up on the possibilities or accept what is when you can see it for what it could be.”

Action Vision Focus Dreams Possibility Acceptance Determination

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“A good leader must have the wisdom to know when a pursuit is no longer worthy of being pursued - a time when the losses of the present must be accepted - and cut - to preserve the gains and providence of the future.”

Wisdom Loss Leader Wise Acceptance Future Self Improvement Gains Self Awareness Providence Preservation Worthiness Leading Losses Better Yourself Pursuits

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“We are not slaves of the past, nor servants of the present, but masters of the future.”

Past Choices Destiny Dreams Acceptance Masters Perspective Confidence Future Gains Meaning Choice Significance Potential Present Actions Slaves Servants

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“Time doesn't always heal all wounds.”

People Love Past Happiness Time Understanding Relationships Grief Healing Sadness Acceptance Emotions Self Awareness Hopeless Others Coming To Terms Dealing With The Past

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“Though there is much we still want, there is much we already have, and that means we have much to lose as well. It’s that potential loss that can keep us bound so tightly that we never reach our biggest dreams, because the biggest dreams require the most risk.”

Want Desire Fear Freedom Loss Risk Dreams Potential Need Reward Necessity Losses

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“The questions we don’t ask become the puzzles we don’t solve.”

Answers Questioning Puzzles Questions Solving Problems

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“When you give people a choice, they believe they have power.”

Choices Belief Power Influence Choice Manipulation Beliefs Persuasion Mass Influence

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“If you think you know what your purpose is, but can never seem to gain satisfaction from it, then it’s probably not the purpose you’re destined for.”

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“Why spend your life working on defense when no defense can be made truly impenetrable? Take the offensive – learn the vulnerabilities of the world around you and be the change you wish to see rather than living in constant fear of what may happen to you instead.”

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“Anything you don’t want to deal with can always be written off as being “in the past” and ignored, but in doing so, you sweep it under a rug where it doesn't go away with time – it becomes time itself, and takes on the illusion of life as we think we know it.”

Thinking Life Past Time Choices Belief Issues Influence Ignorance Emotions Illusion Thought Choice Problems The Past Ignoring

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“The older you get, the faster time passes in your mind, so use your time according to what is most important.”

Life Important Age Time Choices Importance Aging Lifetime Meaning Choice Time Management Accomplishments Deathbed

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“What's the use in prolonging life if you don't do anything with it?”

Life Death Choices Dreams Lifetime Meaning Choice Significance Potential Time Management Afterlife Deathbed Prolonging

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“The world is changeable, and its ability to change is so fragile that a single person can be responsible for it.”

People World Choices Change Ability Awareness Careful Protection Significant Meaning Choice Significance Actions Preservation Caution Others Fragility Pursuits Responsiblity

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“Significant change requires significant sacrifice.”

Success Choices Change Path Sacrifice Self Improvement Significant Choice

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“Once you start settling, and letting others control your life, it can quickly become a habit, so it’s best to avoid such things altogether.”

People Life Choices Fear Freedom Awareness Habit Self Awareness Settling Choice Control Free Others

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“We are but cells living in a much larger organism, however, this does not make our existence less significant – for an organism without cells is no organism at all. We define it; we make it what it is. We are responsible for its health, its functionality, and above all, its purpose. A lone cell can restore the others, or a lone cell can spread a plague.”

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“It is unwise to waste in thought what could be earned and secured in action.”

Action Choices Goals Thought Choice Potential Time Management Actions Act Pursuits

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“Gaining satisfaction through accomplishments is and will always be a slippery slope, because there will come a time when you realize you have accomplished all that is within your power to accomplish in the realm of good, and will have nowhere else to turn but to the realms of greed and powerlust to find the satisfaction you crave.”

Choices Power Focus Self Improvement Determination Self Awareness Greed Satisfaction Careful Choice Self Control Caution Accomplishments Paths Pursuits

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“Admiration provides no saving grace for the inconvenient.”

Trust Admiration Caution Inconvenient

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“What separates us into engineers and robots, puppeteers and puppets, kings and pawns, is not the status we hold at any given time among others - status is irrelevant; it is the level of ever-present awareness we have of a grey-matter tailor's tools [of flattery, persuasion, and cunning.]”

Source: Rise of the Morningstar

“We all need to humble ourselves from time to time and expose ourselves to new perspectives and ideas, even those of the non-experts, or else our growth potential gets weighed down with the ignorance of ego and habit.”

Ideas Learning Humility Perspective Listening Habit Ego Humble Potential Idea

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“We must humble ourselves before [others] so we may learn from what others have lived. It is only when we have added their expertise to our own that we can truly excel towards our most ambitious goals and reach our fullest potential.”

People Leadership Leader Learning Teaching Humility Self Improvement Goals Improvement Potential Expertise Lead Others Humbling Achievements Leading Better Yourself

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“The power to give everything or take it all away is the inborn power contained in every confident woman’s grasp – the only way for a man to regain that power, is to keep her happy enough that she forgets she even has it.”

Relationships Power Confidence Female Happy Woman Give Confident Take

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“Sometimes to submit is to know you have a life worth living for a higher purpose, worth seeing through.”

Life Important Purpose Fear Self Esteem Failure Pride Ego Living Emotions Importance Shame Lifetime Protection Meaning Choice Significance Submit Submission Self Doubt Doubts

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“Change isn't always comfortable, but it always teaches us something of utmost importance – usually about ourselves – and we become better people for it.”

Important Change Teaching Comfort Comfortable Importance Self Awareness Personal Growth

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“This day, you are free, because you have chosen to be free – and because of your choice, your days of insignificance are over.”

Important Freedom Importance Choice Significance Free Insignificance

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“All things are possible; if something seems like it’s not, it’s only because enough people aren't being deceived into the possibilities yet.”

Possibility Deception Manipulation Persuasion Mass Influence Mass Manipulation

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“Always think at least two steps ahead [in everything, with everyone].”

People Power Focus Awareness Trust Careful Protection Planning Thought Manipulation Caution Others Strategist Group Safeguarding Strategizing Cya

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“The more a mind thinks upon something, the deeper it will take root and affect all subsequent and related thought.”

Thinking Mind Focus Influence Awareness Perspective Habit Self Awareness Depth Careful Thought Caution Dwelling Paradigm Shift Being Selective

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“Mistake this day as being like any other, and your deaths will go as unmourned as the insects of the field.”

Death Special Unique Mourning Significance Insects Insignificance Unmourned

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“In the grand scheme of life, nobody grows old keeping their soul unblemished.”

Life Age Fear Shame Aging Lifetime Corruption Uncertainty Insecurity Afterlife Uncertain Soul Searching Scheme

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“When life brings you mountains, you don’t waste your time asking why; you spend your time climbing over them.”

Life Success Effort Hard Work Determination Climbing Time Management Mountains Why

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“It’s true what they say, that words are the true weapons. Those who fight with steel are limited to the strength of their arm, the reach of their blade, and the timing of their strike; but those who fight with persuasion know no limits – not time, nor status, nor chance.”

Source: Rise of the Morningstar

“Never overestimate the strength of the torchbearer's arm, for even the strongest arms grow weary.”

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“Our emotions hold more power over us than blade or poison alike. To embrace freely the entire spectrum of our emotions is to allow a multitude of Trojan horses containing hidden emotional poisons to circumvent the walls of rationalization – walls we need to protect our trust, confidence, understanding, and self-control.”

Understanding Power Trust Confidence Emotions Protection Poison Self Control Spectrum Sword Walls Rationalization Trojan Horse Blade

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“When all is said and done, everyone should be able to look back on their life and know that they made it exactly as they wanted it to be.”

Life Happiness Death Lifetime Satisfaction Deathbed

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“There is immense power in an idea, because it unites people. It motivates them toward change. But the real power lies in their unity, in coming together – if enough can be rallied to a cause, no matter how ridiculous, it will be seen and heard.”

Action Together Causes Change Power Heard Unity Improvement Idea Act Seen Noticed

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“The ignorance of the world often makes people believe that life should be black and white – that you must choose sides – and so the world of colourful gradients goes unadmired.”

Belief Ignorance Colour Admiration Black And White Beliefs Choosing Sides Grey Areas Gradients

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“Sometimes we exist long enough to lead the next generation; other times, only to plant a seed and let its resonations of our time here on Earth ripple into new waves.”

Life Purpose Time Leadership Existence Leader Influence Lifetime Meaning Lead Ripple Waves Exist Mass Influence Resonate Planting A Seed Resonation Seed Planting

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“Trust is not a gasoline-soaked blanket that succumbs to the matches of betrayal, never able to be used for its warmth again; it’s a tapestry that wears thin in places, but can be patched over if you have the right materials, circumstances, and patience to repair it. If you don’t, you’re always the one who feels the coldest when winter comes.”

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“Your biggest dreams can become reality, not by brute-forcing the end-goal, but breaking it down into smaller, more manageable parts. If your goal takes years, breaking it down into months and days will let you improve your lot little bits at a time.”

Reality Time Dreams Self Improvement Self Awareness Goals Improvement Time Management Simplify Manageable Brute Force End Goal

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“Love is not a purpose, it’s a paradox; it’s not an end-goal, it’s an auxiliary fuel source to help get there.”

Love Purpose Destiny Perspective Self Improvement Emotions Determination Careful Paradox Time Management Preservation Caution End Goal Auxiliary Fuel Source

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“We’re all blurry-eyed wanderers of time, and the unfortunance of it all is that we’d probably all go on to do great things if only we searched for what corrected and focused our vision instead of relying on our past – life’s grand kaleidoscope – to help us find our way forward.”

Life Past Time Vision Focus Greatness Lifetime Unfortunate Soul Searching Searching Wanderers Kaleidoscope Blurry Eyed

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“The path of destiny is not always paved smooth with gold.”

Destiny Path Gold Road Pavement Paved

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“The lion does not need the whole world to fear him, only those nearest where he roams.”

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“The weakest link in any chain of security is not the technology itself, but the person operating it; iron gates have no compassion to appeal to, nor fears to exploit, nor insecurities to use to one’s advantage. They are, however, operated by us – by beings of unlimited vulnerability and limited energy. Why waste time brute-forcing what can be easily circumvented by a clever façade and a crimson tongue?”

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“When you’re looking for a needle in a haystack, don’t afraid to burn the haystack to save yourself from spending half your life picking through strands of straw.”

Fire Time Management Searching Burn Needle In A Haystack

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