A.J. Darkholme Quotes

People respond more to the authority of status, than the authority of truth.
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Being an authority on paper does not immediately grant you authority over a group until it is earned by you and given by them.
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We must always be careful never to make more enemies than we could handle if they were all to attack at once.
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All things are possible; if something seems like it’s not, it’s only because enough people aren't being deceived into the possibilities yet.
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The questions we don’t ask become the puzzles we don’t solve.
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Express [yourself] without worrying what everyone else will think. Those people are your limits. Ignore them.
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People are more willing to change based on their perceived insecurities than by an attack on their beliefs.
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A man shouldn't bite the hand that feeds him, even if another holds out a golden spoon to him as reward after his betrayal.
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If we are to be truly free, that freedom will come through cooperation and tolerance with one another.
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When you’re looking for a needle in a haystack, don’t afraid to burn the haystack to save yourself from spending half your life picking through strands of straw.
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Never judge a woman by her age.
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If you choose to keep your true face secret, then the people who know you by one mask, must never meet those who know you by another.
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In the grand scheme of life, nobody grows old keeping their soul unblemished.
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When life brings you mountains, you don’t waste your time asking why; you spend your time climbing over them.
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Don’t let realism keep you from doing what you feel you need to do, even if you think it’s hopeless.
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Our unity will always be a greater force with mixed ideals than if we demand that others change for us, to what we believe.
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Remain open-minded, even when you believe yourself to be a king among peasants. You never know what blessings can be gained or crises averted just by listening.
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Perhaps we don’t progress, because there are so many views – so many paths to peace and happiness – that we get hung up on each path’s differences. Trying to sort out right from wrong when the rights mean so much to us that we can’t look at them objectively.
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This day, you are free, because you have chosen to be free – and because of your choice, your days of insignificance are over.
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Where excess lies, usually someone had to give something up for the other to get it.
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Awareness is not a prerequisite for change.
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Like waking up in our home one night to find ourselves in a blazing fire, we must be arsonists of emotion, forcing ourselves to grab only what is truly important to us before our life-rafters collapse in on us and we can no longer escape alive.
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Every choice in life sets us on a different path and carries its own set of “what ifs” and consequences that we could worry about, but what’s the use? Rather than plaguing our thoughts with the unknown, we should focus on and accept only what we do know – and all we know is the path we’re currently on.
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The amount of gold someone has is never the issue, but rather the love of it and the want of more for personal gain that consumes the hearts of many good people.
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[If you] give into your [emotional] illusions, and you will find yourself lost in a maze with no exits, nor entrances, but winding paths that lead you in circles so many times that you grow familiar and comfortable with the very place you shouldn't be in.
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There is stability in walking an uncertain path, because you never allow yourself to be misled by what you think you know.
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Our destinations are Booleans – we reach them or we don’t – but our journeys are spectrums, because there are so many paths we can take to our destination that make getting there that much better.
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You believe stealing is wrong, but if your family was starving and could not afford bread, wouldn't you say it’s okay to steal a loaf to feed them?
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We stay the same as we've always been, keeping to the path we've walked our whole lives. Paths that carry so much importance and perceived stability that we are utterly convinced it is the only one to walk – that anyone not walking it with us is being misled.
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If someone was going to kill someone dear to you, and you could stop that person by killing them instead, would you kill them, knowing it was an effective way to save your loved one?
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What separates us into engineers and robots, puppeteers and puppets, kings and pawns, is not the status we hold at any given time among others - status is irrelevant; it is the level of ever-present awareness we have of a grey-matter tailor's tools [of flattery, persuasion, and cunning.]
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Our knees get dusty from time to time, but when they touch the ground, we must never allow the dust to convince us that our submission in that moment is the acceptance of our defeat for an entire lifetime.
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Sometimes you just need to know when a fight is best saved for another day when the odds are more in your favour.
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Greed robs you of more value than the price of what you've gained.
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Let your fear drive you to evolve into greatness.
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The values most important to us are always the most easily exploitable.
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Once you start settling, and letting others control your life, it can quickly become a habit, so it’s best to avoid such things altogether.
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We are creatures of habit more than we are creatures of change.
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Sometimes the heart can hear what the ears do not.
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Never give up on the possibilities or accept what is when you can see it for what it could be.
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If something needs to be done, do it. If something needs to be said, say it.
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Anything you dream [can] be yours simply because you've focused on the steps you could take instead of the distance to get there.
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People fear what they do not understand.
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Far too many people allow broken egos and wounded prides to convince them to seek justice before they seek understanding.
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It’s amazing how just dressing differently can affect your influence; dress like a beggar and your assumed poverty gains you looks of contempt; dress in gold-lined robes and people are more willing to accommodate you; sport armour and you look strong, dutiful, and prepared.
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You must always focus on and pursue the good, but when that darkness surges up from within, you need to know how to handle it, use it, and release it wisely, not just deny its presence or acceptability as you suppress it within you.
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Change isn't always comfortable, but it always teaches us something of utmost importance – usually about ourselves – and we become better people for it.
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If you plan for failure, then you are expecting to fail. If you plan for success, you’ll be successful. Once you start making a ‘Plan B’, you distract from ‘Plan A’, and the moment you start believing there are other options, you start settling for less.
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Sometimes you just have to know when the battle you’re fighting is one best walked away from, than fought to the cold, bitter end.
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Don’t let the fact you haven’t done something before convince you that you can’t do it, or that it cannot be done perfectly the first time you try your hand at it.
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To get to where you need to be, you have to go where you don't feel prepared to go.
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The only way we succeed as a group is not simply following directions, but in keeping each other accountable for our actions.
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Some people are born to hold keys, while others are born to use them.
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Greatness is not a gift that one can give to another, but rather is a thief's relic that we must take for ourselves.
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They say you can’t change the past despite the fact it never stops changing you – but that doesn't mean we have to sit back and take it. It may change us, but we have ultimate control over how we let it.
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We’re all blurry-eyed wanderers of time, and the unfortunance of it all is that we’d probably all go on to do great things if only we searched for what corrected and focused our vision instead of relying on our past – life’s grand kaleidoscope – to help us find our way forward.
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What's the use in prolonging life if you don't do anything with it?
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Sometimes we exist long enough to lead the next generation; other times, only to plant a seed and let its resonations of our time here on Earth ripple into new waves.
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Your life is not a countdown to your death, but a stepping stone for the lives that will live after you. Squander today, and you will find yourself useless tomorrow.
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Life is what you make it and legacy is what you leave it. Stop trying to be perfect, stop waiting for perfection to find you, and start making your environment a product of you instead of the other way around.
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