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"Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing."
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"You are where you are today because you have chosen to be there."

"No matter at what speed I move forward, I am never satisfied. If today I run at a speed of 100, I keep an aim of running at 200. World has gone far ahead and we need to match that level."

"Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression."

"I believe the real reason we pursue anything in life is not for the thing itself, but for who we become on the way to its accomplishment. We strive to accomplish things in the attempt to mold ourselves. The greatest benefits Jiu Jitsu will have in your life will have nothing to do with Jiu Jitsu. It is this simple understanding that allows me to persist in my study. Even on the rare days when I may not have a burning desire to practice Jiu Jitsu, I am reminded that my practicing Jiu Jitsu is more accurately my practicing to become a better human being. The lessons I learn on the mat will serve me in every area of life-- personal development, relationships, business, and the like."

"The "growing" we attribute to becoming more mature, could be more accurately described as "shrinking", as we cut away the nonsense that emotionally weighs us down."

"If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much."

"I am talking about misery and all of its implications."

"The triumph can't be had without the struggle."

"I am who I am because the tears of my past have watered the magnificence of my present."

"Failures should never become hindrance in the learning process. Instead, we must learn from our failures to strive and overcome challenges in our lives."
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"The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences."

"Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it."

"To live is not to breathe but to act. It is to make use of our organs, our senses, our faculties, of all the parts of ourselves which give us the sentiment of our existence. The man who has lived the most is not he who has counted the most years but he who has most felt life."

"There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character."
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