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"The major events in our lives receive the entire spotlight, but ultimately your life will be defined by the same handful of choices you make each day."
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"I am very grateful for all the opportunities life has given me."

"My mission in life is to be kind, compassionate, caring, sharing and loving in order to feel the deepest joy of life."
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"We must remember that the end of personal mastery is service to others."

"The most obvious, most absurdly recognizable phenomena in day-to-day life often become the hardest to remain consciously aware of."

"The possessions themselves were not the problem, it was my relationship with possessing."

"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."

"For the sincere student, it mustn't be enough to simply understand Jiu Jitsu. We must seek to understand ourselves."

"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."

"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."

"Life is so unlikely, so rare and beautiful an opportunity it is to live, we must be on constant guard to ensure that our actions are worthy of the life it takes to perform them."
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