“Love me only for my actions, and I will grow stressed. Love me only for my body, and I will grow paranoid. Love me only for my words, and I will grow bitter. Love me only for my soul, and I will grow.”
“It was painful to contemplate the distance between the future of accomplishment I d imagined for myself twenty years earlier, and the reality...it was painful to understand that the cushion of exceptionality invoked by the drug had made me oblivious to my inertia. And it was painful to have to define myself again, at an age when most people are happy in their own skins.”
“If you wish to give chance on others abilities and capabilities then give them respected time to grow and express themselves. Share a path for everyone to grow and glow!”
“Nothing is lost that cannot be refound she says in a voice infused with otherworldly authority this is the Dark Goddess s promise to guide you back to your deepest self and soul. If you choose this Sarah, so will it be.”
“In the heart of every apple is an entire orchard waiting only to be planted.”
“Be with people who like you for who you are, not what you have.”
“Tomorrow when you wake up, be aware of how you dress your thoughts and emotions, because at the end of the day no matter what you look like, if your inner being isn t beautiful, neither are you.”
“And even if you cared what they had to say, would you act upon their opinions and create your life from it? No. Than stop replaying their toxic words in your head, it s no good for your being and start doing the things that once made you, you.”
“dont harden your heart; because of the past, it ll block your sight, of a positive future.”
“The war has changed you, too, Caroline. Your faith is stronger, your compassion deeper, your love more intense than ever before. It s as if all the qualities I saw in you and fell in love with have been refined and purified.”
“There is no higher calling than service to your fellow man, and to do so through your own personal mastery of a craft is a gift enjoyed by few. Cultivate this gift, and give it away.”
“I did something the other day that not many have been taught. I prayed for those who hurt me, to eventually find there way- not because they deserve it but because i deserve the growth.”
“The possibility to love another scared me; terrified me actually. Being a free spirit, apart of me is most alive when roaming, than I became a mother and for the first time I felt my heart live outside my body and that s the moment his laughter became my medicine.”
“You are never as good as you think you are, and you are never as bad as you believe yourself to be.”
“I can think of no more worthwhile aim than pursuing mastery in this craft while transcending one’s own limitations.”
“Jiu Jitsu is a vehicle for self-discovery and growth. It reminds me of my ego, of my insecurities, and of my shortcomings.”
“There is an undeniable truth that as one progresses further in his understanding of a craft the rest of his life progresses along with it. This symbiotic relationship between all things is experienced on a daily basis, but rarely articulated through conscious thought.”