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Chris Matakas

"We see that happiness is not comfort. Happiness is the freedom to choose one's own way."

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"We see that happiness is not comfort. Happiness is the freedom to choose one's own way."

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"We live by choice and by necessity. We choose the mechanisms that are essential to ensure satisfaction of our baseline survival. What labor we willingly endure in order to meet our minimalistic subsistence requirements and what activities we elect to pursue in order to mollify our desire for living joyfully and attain self-realization defines our essential self's core personality."

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"I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies."

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"Pick a truth that blesses your life!"

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"God invites. We decline. And because of that single foolhardy decision we spend the rest of our lives 'declining'."

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"Which would you rather be if you had the choice--divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good?"

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"You can only give yourself a chance to find right things when you stop chasing wrong things."

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"Youth is the most suitable age to enjoy the life completely or to work diligently for the life, what you decide makes your rest of the life ordinary or legendary respectively."

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"Times goes by your choice, if you make your days wonderful the days will go fast... and interesting and memorable.... If you do it in boring way they will go like watching a film which doesn't have something to make you get interested without games, crimes, horror, thriller, romance and every single other genre which you think without it the film is awful... but not only genre, but genres!"

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"There's no need to blame fate or destiny for a stupid decision."

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"Why on earth would you buy a car like this if you can't drive a stick? There are dozens of cars--new cars--that have automatic transmission. It'd be a million times easier." Adrian shrugged. "I like the color. It matches my living room."

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"The most obvious, most absurdly recognizable phenomena in day-to-day life often become the hardest to remain consciously aware of."
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"Our social contract is becoming an exchange of free thought for mindless stimuli."
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"The quality of your life is directly proportional to the positive effect you have on others' lives."
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"This philosophy teaches us to leave safe harbor for the rough seas of real-world experience, and to accept that a rough copy out in the world serves us far greater than a masterpiece sitting quietly on our shelves."
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"For the sincere student, it mustn't be enough to simply understand Jiu Jitsu. We must seek to understand ourselves."
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"I do not begin to think that I could possibly understand its inner-workings and the deepest truths of the cosmos with the 28 years that I have lived in Central New Jersey of the United States of America."
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"I am acutely aware that all I have been able to achieve has been in large part due to circumstances outside my control. This is why I teach, and this is why I write. I want to be one of those opportunities for others. Perhaps this is the true measure of success."
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"Deep down I believe each of us is a well-spring of understanding and wisdom, but we simply never allow the space or time for this understanding to rise to the level of conscious thought."
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"To know our values is to have a foundation on which to build a great life. Our environment and education will play a large part in influencing our formulation of this world view, but is ultimately ourselves that have the final say. We must decide what we value, and then live accordingly. After all, in the eyes of the world we could achieve great success, but if our actions do not coincide with what we ourselves truly deem worthy, we will find no peace."
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