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"Jiu Jitsu is a vehicle for self-discovery and growth. It reminds me of my ego, of my insecurities, and of my shortcomings."
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"To automatically be promoted from one class to another without any serious self- discipline, and self- improvement is a cheap life."

"Sometimes by failing we find a better opportunity to win."

"It is the quality of time you are able to convert into the production of value. The quality of time you are able to concentrate and use to produce values is what determines your greatness."

"The only thing that could cleanse our society is when our messages is focused on diligence, hard work and been faithful in little."

"The content of a man is the life he possesses inside."

"Your confidence kills your fears when they appear. Your competence makes them not to appear at all. Be bold, do it."

"If you don't have any results to show for all your passing time, then you must have been trivializing time and you must have been living your life carelessly."

"Difficulties of life are valuable opportunities for self-discovery."
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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."

"We see that the vast majority of our suffering is needless, and simply arises from the misidentification with our thinking mind."

"I have seen far by seeing through the lens of Jiu Jitsu. I have exchanged a great deal of physical health for these insights, and these were trades worth making. My efforts were worth the return. I have sacrificed much in the name of this craft. Not for trophies or belts or prestige. For these fall away like dust. I pursued this art so fervently because it was not actually Jiu Jitsu I pursued. It was myself."

"When you realize you are no longer made of glass, you lose the desire to demonstrate that fragility in others."

"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."
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