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"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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"Crawl in faith, and you will end up walking. Walk in faith, and you will end up jogging. Jog in faith, and you will end up running. Run in faith, and you will end up sprinting. Sprint in faith, and you will end up soaring."
"It might be like you are still far from getting there, but remember, you are closer to it than you were yesterday. Every tiny step you take counts a lot!"
"The messages emphasizing miracles and breakthrough must be replaced if our nation must move forward."
"Consistency is good, but progress is better."
"Remember, for a society to truly progress we don't need woman or man, we need a fully-fledged human - nothing short of that would do."
"If we are to make progress, we must not repeat history but make new history. We must add to inheritance left by our ancestors."
"Progress begins when you liberate your mind from the shackles of your ingrained tendencies of authoritarianism " the tendencies of greed " the tendencies of hatred, rage and lust."
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"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."
"Your potential for growth is directly proportionate to the degree to which you are willing to make mistakes."
"The rare opportunity to exist, no matter how brief, is worth the pain left in the wake of its disappearance."
"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."
"When you give your weakness permission to be because you understand that it is simply an expression of your strength, it tends to no longer be a weakness."
"The knowledge you acquire in an area of study is accompanied by an incalculable ignorance. The farther we get into anything, we learn that we have even farther to go."
"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."
"I believe that which you study is only matched in importance by the sincerity with which you approach it."
"He plays the same game, but for the first time in his life he is truly playing, rather than working, being a human, and this is a vast distinction realized by few."
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