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Chris Matakas

"You are never as good as you think you are, and you are never as bad as you believe yourself to be."

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"You are never as good as you think you are, and you are never as bad as you believe yourself to be."

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Donna Grant

"My heart broke and my mind opened, tragedy works in a funny way like that ~ what once tore me apart was actually what was setting my truth free."

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Donna Grant

"Idleness is the parent of psychology."

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Donna Grant

"Day or night, good or bad, all things from within."

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Donna Grant

"We are who we are because of what we learn and what we remember."

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Donna Grant

"If we let the drama of others' lives become our own, then we are no longer ourselves. We become the reflections of others' dramas and their lives, their tragedies, and their misfortunes become our own."

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Donna Grant

"I've always felt that the best whips and chains are in the mind. With a little creativity, the physical ones are hardly necessary."

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Donna Grant

"I don't need psychologyI am not a sociopathNeither and Psychopath."

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Donna Grant

"Do not focus on your failings, for you will only encourage them. If you keep beating yourself up on the head over these, you will only reinforce them."

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Donna Grant

"You must give permission for people to alter your thoughts. No matter how hard they knock, they can't get into your brain unless you open the door."

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Donna Grant

"When we hold-on to someone's imperfections we become emotionally pair-bonded to their maladies."

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Chris Matakas
"Freedom from the thinking mind is our underlying goal for most of human activity."

Mindfulness

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Chris Matakas
"I have never been as alive or awake as I have been through Jiu Jitsu."

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Chris Matakas
"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."

Life

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Chris Matakas
"The most meaningful endeavors are the ones that come without an end."

Meaning

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Chris Matakas
"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."

Purpose

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Chris Matakas
"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."

Failure

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Chris Matakas
"The more specifically you define your goals the more attainable they become."

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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."

Education

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Chris Matakas
"By becoming a black belt, you will become whatever it is you wanted to be in the first place, and Jiu Jitsu will have served its aim."

Achievement

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Chris Matakas
"I believe the devil exists in those little, seemingly unnoticeable moments when we choose to value our own insecurities over the service of others."

Ethics

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