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Chris Matakas

"This constant mental diatribe and the frustrations, worries, insecurities and muscular tension that ensues are the self."

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"This constant mental diatribe and the frustrations, worries, insecurities and muscular tension that ensues are the self."

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Donna Grant

"There are always people who find their lives have become so unsupportable they believe the best thing they could do would be to hasten their transition to another plane of existence.""They kill themselves, you mean?" said Bod. He was about eight years old, wide-eyed and inquisitive, and he was not stupid."Indeed.""Does it work? Are they happier dead?""Sometimes. Mostly, no. It's like the people who believe they'll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn't work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you. If you see what I mean."

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Donna Grant

"You think you're losing your mind, but do keep in mind, as long as you may, that the ability to go on thinking such a thing means it's not all gone."

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Donna Grant

"Depression, which lives below the horizon, is the result of painting and entertaining negative imagery - most of which has not taken place in reality. Get up, move, and appreciate that which is given. What is lacking is usually material and heavily influenced by external forces. Don't play yourself, save yourself."

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Donna Grant

"Being overly critical of yourself is like having a relentless, inescapable bully who follows you everywhere you go and abuses you."

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Donna Grant

"I am too sick to lay downthe sidewalks frighten methe whole damned city frightens me,what I will becomewhat I have becomefrightens me."

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Donna Grant

"When you stress out, things will stress out around you. Always control your thoughts and pacify any unnecessary stress. Control your vibrations and you are the master of your own harmony."

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"There is a dead space between most people and those afflicted with Mental Illness and it's called Understanding."

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Donna Grant

"It almost occurred; It almost got hold of my purity, Just as it headed for the war within my being,I fed it a light so bright; It thought it almost had control of me. Depression is just a dis-ease, So; Let your mind be free."

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Donna Grant

"Honestly, if I stay on this gruelling path, I'm going to end up as another suicide statistic."

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Donna Grant

"Madness is like an alternative residence. When sanity chases you out of home, take shelter in madness."

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"Freedom from the thinking mind is our underlying goal for most of human activity."
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"I have never been as alive or awake as I have been through Jiu Jitsu."
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"When we honestly take stock of our ability, we are then granted the opportunity to improve our circumstance. Accessing where you stand is the only way to stand somewhere else."
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"The most meaningful endeavors are the ones that come without an end."
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"Anyone can be tough for a season. It takes a special kind of human to rise to life's challenges for a lifetime."
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"We must strive to become more daily. We must honestly assess our weaknesses and overcome them. We must work toward the highest possible version of ourselves. This is a worthy use of our time, but it is only when we do so with the ultimate aim of service to our fellow man that we really connect with something greater than ourselves. To contribute to the world in a positive way, this is the gift of life."
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"Today's world is flooded with participation trophies. In an attempt to promote equality we have robbed our youth of the most growth-inducing aspect of competition, failing. If you want to be resurrected, you have to first be crucified. Everybody wants to be reborn, but no one is willing to die. Losing, in the context of whatever arena it may be, is a microcosmic death. When we learn from our failures and grow because of them, we are reborn."
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"The more specifically you define your goals the more attainable they become."
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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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Chris Matakas
"I train jiu jitsu because I love jiu jitsu. But I also train knowing that my practice in this art will allow me better practice in any art. If you have learned one thing, you have learned all things, because you have learned how to learn. I can think of no more worthwhile pursuit of education."
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