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"As a human being, I know of no greater example of success than someone who is self-sustaining through using his passion in the service of others."
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"The best indicator of a man's philosophy is not what he reads or says, but the way in which he lives his life, the way in which he acts."
"We are the estranged orphans of our nations and tribes, and we now bear the weight not of survival of the group but of personal identity."
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"Jiu Jitsu gives me an ideal to strive toward. Technical mastery lies on an infinite continuum and completion of this skill is impossible. Every time I train I have something that I can improve upon, and this will hold true for each and every training session that lies between me and my grave."
"Your potential for growth is directly proportionate to the degree to which you are willing to make mistakes."
"After I received my blue belt, I soon recognized that the belts were simply an external representation of an inner experience, and that they mattered little compared to the person I was becoming."
"I wanted to get to the most essential aspect of my being, and look around for a while. I wanted to explore what I am in my most basic self. I wanted to chip away at all of the nonsense I have acquired through my twenty-nine years on this earth. I wanted to find truth. Thoreau went to the woods. I went to the mats. Jiu Jitsu has peeled the veil of daily life, and has shown me what lies beyond the curtain. We willingly accept the chains that circumstance forces upon us, and we grow to find comfort in them. We attach various fetters of day-to-day living to our being, and we do so with a smile. We accept these constraints for they come in the way of comfort. We accept conformity for it appears the path of least resistance. We strive toward the middle, and we run from ourselves."
"The rare opportunity to exist, no matter how brief, is worth the pain left in the wake of its disappearance."
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