A.J. Darkholme Biography & Quotes

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“Perhaps we don’t progress, because there are so many views – so many paths to peace and happiness – that we get hung up on each path’s differences. Trying to sort out right from wrong when the rights mean so much to us that we can’t look at them objectively.”

Happiness Peace Differences Views Path Progress Respect Tolerance Wrong Right Beliefs Objectivity Others

Book:Rise of the Morningstar

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“Like waking up in our home one night to find ourselves in a blazing fire, we must be arsonists of emotion, forcing ourselves to grab only what is truly important to us before our life-rafters collapse in on us and we can no longer escape alive.”

Home Death House Emotion Fire Importance Saving Arson Arsonists

Book:Rise of the Morningstar

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“It’s amazing how just dressing differently can affect your influence; dress like a beggar and your assumed poverty gains you looks of contempt; dress in gold-lined robes and people are more willing to accommodate you; sport armour and you look strong, dutiful, and prepared.”

Poverty Influence Clothes Respect Appearance Contempt Beggar Armor Armour Knight Dressing Accomodation

Book:Rise of the Morningstar

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“You must always focus on and pursue the good, but when that darkness surges up from within, you need to know how to handle it, use it, and release it wisely, not just deny its presence or acceptability as you suppress it within you.”

Wisdom Choices Understanding Darkness Focus Acceptance Morality Goodness Ethics Determination Self Awareness Denial Choice Potential Morals Pursuits Handling Emotion

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“Always hear others out and remain open-minded; the day you think you know everything is the day you have the most yet to learn.”

People Leadership Leader Knowledge Learning Ignorance Respect Tolerance Open Minded Others Open Mindedness Hear Leading

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“We stay the same as we've always been, keeping to the path we've walked our whole lives. Paths that carry so much importance and perceived stability that we are utterly convinced it is the only one to walk – that anyone not walking it with us is being misled.”

People Life Important Change Path Heard Acceptance Listening Habit Morality Respect Ethics Importance Lifetime Stability Morals Persuasion Caution Others Misled Hear Misleading

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“Every man walks his own path, and every path has its fair share of locked doors. You never know who holds the key to a door you’ll need to open one day, so you best treat people as if they are all keyholders.”

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“Remain open-minded, even when you believe yourself to be a king among peasants. You never know what blessings can be gained or crises averted just by listening.”

People Time Leadership Leader Listening Authority Respect Gains Hearing Understand Open Mind Open Minded Others Open Mindedness Status Hear Gain Leading Openmindedness

Book:Rise of the Morningstar

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“If you refuse to accept what is, and choose to see what could be, then you set a course for yourself that makes others take notice of you, respect you, revere you. It is then that they become objects of your destiny instead of you playing a support role in theirs.”

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“Seek counsel; though we are all skilled and experienced in many ways, no one can experience all that life has to offer in the limited time we are given in this world.”

Life Life Lessons Knowledge Humility Self Improvement Respect Experience Lifetime Humble Potential Time Management Counsel

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“When all seems hopeless and all has gone silent, that’s Destiny turning down the music so that all may hear our response to life’s great storms, giving our response the chance to echo throughout eternity with the level of greatness it deserves.”

Life Character Death Hope Waiting Silence Music Destiny Greatness Listening Eternity Response Afterlife Storms Reaction

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“Greed robs you of more value than the price of what you've gained.”

Gains Self Awareness Greed Value Self Control Price

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“Despite our human intelligence, we are very much like our friends in the wild; the world we live in is a survival of the fittest. But to this I say, let the fittest survive! Survival is overrated. We’re alive; we die. How long we survive for is of little significance. Our true significance lies not in the endless comparing of ourselves to one another, trying to see who is the fittest, using scales of evaluation and meaning that differ in the heart and mind of every individual; no - it lies in our deeds alone with the time we have.”

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“We are united by something greater and more valuable than our beliefs alone: the freedom to have those beliefs, and believe what we want without persecution - we must protect that at all costs.”

Action Belief Freedom United Protect Unity Value Protection Fight Free Beliefs Persecution Act Defend

Book:Rise of the Morningstar

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“No matter where you go, there’s always something to deal with; if it’s not greed, it’s lust, or envy, or pride, or something else. You just have to live your life so uncorrupted that it offsets the corruption as much as possible.”

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“The amount of gold someone has is never the issue, but rather the love of it and the want of more for personal gain that consumes the hearts of many good people.”

Love Money Awareness Gold Greed Value Consumption Status

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“The most inefficient and self-harming thing a person can do is go out looking for love. Let it find you when the time is right and you're out doing what you love to do. Only then will you find it in its truest form.”

Love Life Truth Time Waiting Patience Timing Efficiency Soul Searching Searching Self Harm Inefficient

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“Presenting a humble façade gains trust; flattery appeals to ego; combine the two to gain an ego-based trust within someone, and you will find in your hands a judgement clouding tool second only to love.”

Love Humility Trust Ego Judgment Judgement Manipulation Persuasion Flattery Front Façade Ego Based Trust

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“What you withhold in this life will be withheld from you in the next.”

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“Never judge a woman by her age.”

Age Judgment Judgement Assumptions Ageism

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“Some only follow the holy man while others only follow the warlord. But the truth is, both sides are within all of us, and if people could only see that, they wouldn't have to wear masks, or pretend to be holy like a holy man, or pretend that nothing can hurt them like a warlord. They could just be themselves, unjudged.”

People War Belief Awareness Judgment Self Awareness Judgement Beliefs Others Holy Man Warlord

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“Express [yourself] without worrying what everyone else will think. Those people are your limits. Ignore them.”

People Worry Expression Others Worrying Limitations Ignore

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“Time spent worrying - about anything - provides no emotional or physical benefit to us; such things only weaken us for the fights we must endure in our lives.”

Life Mind Hope Understanding Focus Confidence Emotions Weakness Weak Lifetime Endurance Hopeless Fight Time Management Worrying Confident Battles Self Doubt

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“Far too many people allow broken egos and wounded prides to convince them to seek justice before they seek understanding.”

People Care Understanding Justice Pride Ego Self Awareness Careful Caution Others Wounded Pride Broken Ego

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“Like tiny gods, all that we say and do holds a power so great that any one of us in any given moment can be responsible for the birth of a new civilization or the collapse of our own.”

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“A man shouldn't bite the hand that feeds him, even if another holds out a golden spoon to him as reward after his betrayal.”

Care Betrayal Loyalty Caution Reward Biting The Hand That Feeds You

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“Where excess lies, usually someone had to give something up for the other to get it.”

People Care Sacrifice Awareness Gains Greed Careful Excess Caution Others

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“No army is comprised of all the same kinds of units or types of troops. There is power in diversity. If you always see only one choice, or use only one option, you will surely lose more than you win.”

People Choices United Power Focus Acceptance Perspective Diversity Army Strategy Unity Tolerance Choice Troops Units Tactics Soldiers Others Options Strategizing

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“Our unity will always be a greater force with mixed ideals than if we demand that others change for us, to what we believe.”

Change Acceptance Diversity Ideals Unity Tolerance Beliefs Forces

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“There is stability in walking an uncertain path, because you never allow yourself to be misled by what you think you know.”

Choices Hope Lost Fear Waiting Path Focus Acceptance Patience Decisions Uncertainty Confused Choice Stability Uncertain Direction Self Doubt Wandering

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“Sometimes you just have to know when the battle you’re fighting is one best walked away from, than fought to the cold, bitter end.”

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“Even the tallest trees always begin as a seed.”

Success Time Waiting Understanding Growth Learning Focus Tree Teaching Strength Failure Self Improvement Weakness Patience Height Insecurity Potential Tall Grow

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“Sometimes you just need to know when a fight is best saved for another day when the odds are more in your favour.”

Waiting Patience Self Awareness Fight Odds Self Control Favour Self Preservation Favor

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“Anything you dream [can] be yours simply because you've focused on the steps you could take instead of the distance to get there.”

Action Waiting Path Focus Dreams Perspective Patience Act Wait Baby Steps

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“Life is what you make it and legacy is what you leave it. Stop trying to be perfect, stop waiting for perfection to find you, and start making your environment a product of you instead of the other way around.”

Life Action Purpose Waiting Environment Confidence Perfection Legacy Meaning Fight Act Confident Meaninglessness

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“Sometimes it feels like you have nothing, or aren't going anywhere, but while you’re waiting for fortune to deliver you, there is always something you can do to help yourself, or teach yourself to better your situation.”

Feelings Waiting Situation Learning Teaching Failure Patience Nothing Depressed Better Yourself Lack Of Progress

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“Greatness is not a gift that one can give to another, but rather is a thief's relic that we must take for ourselves.”

Giving Action Greatness Confidence Determination Stealing Gift Act Confident Take Thief Steal Relic

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“Fear is for the powerless. Fear is for the alone. But as you stand together now, you are neither of those. Together, you amplify each other’s strengths; you nullify each other’s weaknesses.”

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“The values most important to us are always the most easily exploitable.”

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“Where there is desire, the means to fulfill it are endless.”

Desire Trust Morality Ethics Greed Careful Lust Morals Execution Distrust Means To An End Motives

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“If someone was going to kill someone dear to you, and you could stop that person by killing them instead, would you kill them, knowing it was an effective way to save your loved one?”

Morality Ethics Murder Morals Dilemma

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“Power and influence: things that should be obtained not for means of greed, nor pride, nor ego, but rather to ensure that in the right moment, when your wisdom and benevolence are required to keep humanity strong and united, you can deliver and orchestrate others toward the greater good.”

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“Words give inspiration, nothing more. You want redemption? The very thing you seek inspiration for? Fight for it like your life depended on it, because it always does.”

Life Inspiration Action Influence Words Redemption Fight Act

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“Without purpose and meaning in our lives, we banish ourselves to wander this plane of existence with self-destructive tendencies until the bell tolls and our breath capsizes in our lungs, snatching our chance to redeem ourselves forever.”

Important Purpose Choices Existence Perspective Self Improvement Importance Self Awareness Significant Redemption Meaning Choice Significance Lungs Breath Meaninglessness Capsize

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“Just because someone is a keyholder, does not mean they will always help you unlock the door you want to go through – no matter how much you think you deserve to go through it. Sometimes you just have to reach out and take it.”

People Destiny Doors Independence Potential Help Dependence Reliance Others Take Pursuits Keyholders

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“Memories are meant to serve you, not enslave you.”

Past Understanding Memories Acceptance Perspective Struggles Self Preservation

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“Our knees get dusty from time to time, but when they touch the ground, we must never allow the dust to convince us that our submission in that moment is the acceptance of our defeat for an entire lifetime.”

Acceptance Self Awareness Lifetime Knees Submission Moment Dusty

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“The only way we succeed as a group is not simply following directions, but in keeping each other accountable for our actions.”

People Success United Acceptance Confidence Authority Unity Following Accountability Actions Others Confident Status Group

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“You don’t have to keep living in a dystopia simply because you’re strong and noble enough to accept it.”

Strong Change Strength Acceptance Weakness Noble Dystopia

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