Dushawn Banks > Quotes

“I’m willing to risk sleep for my goals.
I’m willing to risk money for my investments.
I’m willing to risk my pride for walking in my truth.
I’m willing to risk my freedom for my family.
I’m willing to risk my heart for love.
I’m not willing to risk anything for my peace, happiness, and spirituality.”
― Dushawn Banks, True Blue

“As long as our happiness is dependent upon external things that we can’t control, then our happiness will always be a gamble.”
― Dushawn Banks, True Blue

“It’s also productive to stop for a while and think. You do your best thinking when you’re sitting still. Our top two goals in life are happiness and survival. If you are experiencing that now, then any other goal is just going to get you to this same place. So there is no rush. You are already at where you are trying to go tomorrow.”
― Dushawn Banks, True Blue

“Many choose ignorance because ignorance is easy and it often holds no responsibility. Intelligence or knowing a thing on the other hand gives a person self-responsibility to put his or her knowledge into action; and many times leaves a person with a conscious guilt when their knowledge is not applied.”
― Dushawn Banks, True Blue

“If someone loves you they'll give you the world free of charge. If the whole world loves you, not even the richest man can compete with that. Love is true power.”
― Dushawn Banks, Love,Pain, & Perception

“I have many books that I haven’t read yet. Some books will only make sense when you’re ready. Some books will only be effective when you’re ready. Some books will only make sense when you’re intellectually equipped. The beauty of it is that books are timeless; ready when you are.”
― Dushawn Banks, True Blue

“Destiny. Our intuition knew what we were going to be before our conscious mind knew.”
― Dushawn Banks, True Blue

“It takes one crippled man just to make a hundred people appreciate walking. We like to measure our blessings. The sacrificial lamb.”
― Dushawn Banks, True Blue

“The journey requires us to look forward, but our hearts often pull us backwards. Sometimes I have to remind myself that I can only look in the direction of the journey; and can only move in one direction at a time. If the past is an intangible place, then only one direction exists. Forward.”
― Dushawn Banks, True Blue

“I’m confident in the world’s growth, so I’m confident about what lives under an atom. When I say this I mean, what lives beyond what we have knowledge of, and what new possibilities that the future holds.”
― Dushawn Banks, True Blue

“Real love is reassuring.Real love is having the comfort of knowing that in your darkest hour someone will love you the same. I was away from real love for some time and became dependent on self-love to keep me sane. It wasn't until real love came back around that I noticed that it was missing. It was that family love that, even though I said I was okay, knew what I needed all off of intuition. I've had people love me in my success and turn their backs on me in my momentary failures. I've worked very hard in order to impress the social standards and did all of this just for my family to still love me for me. When society asks, "How are you doing?", they usually mean your accomplishments. When real love asks, "How are you doing?", they usually mean your soul. Real love is addictive. I hope you find it. Love is forever.”
― Dushawn Banks, True Blue

“There are many things that a man built from creations; But I can’t name many things that a man created. A woman had to be built on love because the continuance of life is in her hands. If she really hated a man, then he would cease to exist. She created him.”
― Dushawn Banks, True Blue

“Throughout your elevation to personal success, always
remember the laws of the universe. What goes up must come down.”
― Dushawn Banks, True Blue

“Do you know that there are people that can’t talk or see so knowing them is deeper than them explaining themselves to you? Knowing them is deeper than their story. Knowing them is reading their eyes.Knowing them is understanding their walk. Knowing them is understanding the difference between their twenties smiles. Knowing them is feeling empathy for their cries. Knowing them is deeper than a vocal or written language. Therefore, a person can never know me by only reading my story. Knowing is a perception. Fully knowing is the impossible.”
― Dushawn Banks, True Blue

“No matter how great a pain is, it is only temporary.”
― Dushawn Banks, True Blue

“You don’t have to do something wrong to break someone’s heart. You can break someone’s heart by only existing. Existing without them.”
― Dushawn Banks, True Blue

“When showering the world with your opinion, keep in mind that many of your opinions only make sense at your level. Your level of thinking. Your financial level. Your political level. Your cultural level. Your level of empathy.”
― Dushawn Banks, True Blue

“Success is a moving target.”
― Dushawn Banks, True Blue

“We live most of our lives in segregation with people of our same level. We are in relationships with people around our age, in school with people of our education level, at work with people of our same pay rate, and in neighborhoods with people living the same as us. We are so comfortable with being around ourselves that when someone walks in the room of a greater level we are reminded of the insecurities in ourselves. It’s like love. Things that we think are gone until we are around a certain person again. The public internet is one of our only unsegregated places. This causes us to be digitally jealous of lives that are real and made up. I can only imagine if billionaires really showed their lives. Where would our jealousy be then? We’ll only find happiness when we find it within ourselves. Jealousy is a never ending game.”
― Dushawn Banks, True Blue

“If we knew tomorrow would be so tough, we would
probably quit today. That's the importance of not knowing. It's harder to quit when you have time invested.”
― Dushawn Banks, True Blue

“Everything can be debated; Even this quote.”
― Dushawn Banks, True Blue

“Value is in the mind, heart, and eyes of the beholder.”
― Dushawn Banks, True Blue

“When evolving; Your evolution can be someone's pain
because they don't see themselves in your future.”
― Dushawn Banks, True Blue

“Reality is only our version of the world. Because there are different realities inside of actuality, a different blueprint is needed for each reality. What is successful in our reality may be detrimental in another reality. We can exist in our reality without judging someone else’s existence in their reality.”
― Dushawn Banks, True Blue

“Happiness is not a thing that you attach to a goal and postpone for tomorrow. You have to learn how to find happiness in today.”
― Dushawn Banks, True Blue

“As writers
sometimes we have the skill,
we are just missing the life experience.
They need to coexist to make a great story.”
― Dushawn Banks, True Blue

“Living life to the fullest is about being able to experience every emotion. Highs and lows make the perfect balance.”
― Dushawn Banks, True Blue

“Sometimes our pride and success are going in two different directions. Not our morals and success. Not our respect and success. Not our faith and success, but our ego and success. We can’t be who we want to be and still become successful. Not who we need to be. We can’t be who we are tempted to be, and still become successful. Sometimes failure is success because it saved us from roads that we shouldn’t have been on in the first place.”
― Dushawn Banks, True Blue

“Imagine life as a long journey in the pursuit of contentment. We are tourists making stops at places which are moments that we love. Every place is satisfying and then we move on to the next place. Image the road is a circle that never ends and everyone’s roadmap is different. It never ends because every place that we found happiness in was the destination. Contentment wasn’t a journey itself because it could only exist in the moment. When the moment wore off then the journey started again. Each person’s distance to contentment is however long it takes for them to find a spot of the road that they love. We are all a form of love, on a journey to love. I hope that you find love. Contentment is wherever love is.”
― Dushawn Banks, True Blue

“We are emotionally attached to our own ideas of living. With this attachment we tend to judge others. We can’t even be properly nourished by the same foods or be cured by the same medicine; So what makes us think that we all can successfully live by the same rules? Everyone has their own idea of happiness. What makes one person happy may make another person feel the exact opposite.”
― Dushawn Banks, True Blue