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#1

“Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.”
― Mark Twain

tags: darkness, human-nature, moon

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#2

“Warriors should suffer their pain silently.”
― Erin Hunter, Into the Wild

tags: erin, hunter, hurt, pain, stoicism, suffer, tigerclaw, tigerstar, warrior, warriors

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#3

“I know what I'm capable of; I am a soldier now, a warrior. I am someone to fear, not hunt.”
― Pittacus Lore, The Rise of Nine

tags: chapter-1, fear, hunt, page-8, six, soldier, warrior

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#4

“To be heroic is to be courageous enough to die for something; to be inspirational is to be crazy enough to live a little.”
― Criss Jami, Venus in Arms

tags: clever, courage, courageous, crazy, death, definition, hero, heroes, heroic, heroism, inspirational, life, living, living-life-to-the-fullest, motivational, soldier, stand, stand-out, success, warrior, winning

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#5

“Luck?" Drizzt replied. "Perhaps. But more often, I dare to say, luck is simply the advantage a true warrior gains in excuting the correct course of action.”
― R.A. Salvatore, The Halfling's Gem

tags: action, advantage, luck, warrior

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#6

“Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows

tags: battle, life, solemn, truth, war, warrior

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#7

“When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous. We are timid only when there is something we can still cling to.”
― Don Juan

tags: courage, possession, warrior

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#8

“Warriors want a worthy opponent. There is no redress in fighting the pathetic.”
― Donna Lynn Hope

tags: battle, fighters, fighting, warrior

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#9

“Self-discipline is the cornerstone of any endeavor.”
― Bohdi Sanders, Martial Arts Wisdom: Quotes, Maxims, and Stories for Martial Artists and Warriors

tags: bohdi-sanders, discipline, endeavor, endeavors, endeavours, endevors, self-discipline

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#10

“Truth is universal. Perception of truth varies.”
― Bohdi Sanders, Martial Arts Wisdom: Quotes, Maxims, and Stories for Martial Artists and Warriors

tags: bohdi-sanders, perception, perspective, real-truth, truth, truth-and-lies, truth-of-life, truth-quotes, truths

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#11

“When you react, you let other control you. When you respond, you are in control.”
― Bohdi Sanders, Martial Arts Wisdom: Quotes, Maxims, and Stories for Martial Artists and Warriors

tags: bohdi-sanders, control, control-issues, control-to-bullies, control-your-thoughts, control-yourself, controlling-your-emotions, react, reaction, reactive, respond, responding, responding-to-bullies, responding-to-people, response

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#12

“Focus on making yourself better, not thinking you are better.”
― Bohdi Sanders, Martial Arts Wisdom: Quotes, Maxims, and Stories for Martial Artists and Warriors

tags: bohdi-sanders, goals, goals-in-life, goals-priorities, goals-quotes, self-improvement, self-improvement-goal, self-improvement-quotes

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#13

“There is no such thing as a fair fight.”
― Bohdi Sanders, Martial Arts Wisdom: Quotes, Maxims, and Stories for Martial Artists and Warriors

tags: bohdi-sanders, fair-fight, fair-fight-spirit, fight, fighting, fighting-spirit, martial-arts

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#14

“Protecting yourself is self-defense. Protecting others is warriorship.”
― Bohdi Sanders, Martial Arts Wisdom: Quotes, Maxims, and Stories for Martial Artists and Warriors

tags: bohdi-sanders, martial-arts, protecting, protection, self-defense, warrior, warriors, warriors-path, warriorship

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#15

“A black belt is nothing more than a belt, a piece of cloth. Your ultimate goal should not be to get your black belt. Your ultimate goal should be to be a black belt. Being a black belt is a state of mind, a way of life.”
― Bohdi Sanders, Martial Arts Wisdom: Quotes, Maxims, and Stories for Martial Artists and Warriors

tags: being-a-black-belt, black-belt, bohdi-sanders, karate, martial-arts, martial-arts-training

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#16

“Writing practice brings us back to the uniqueness of our own minds and an acceptance of it. We all have wild dreams, fantasies, and ordinary thoughts. Let us to feel the texture of them and not be afraid of them.Writing is still the wildest thing I know.”
― Natalie Goldberg, Wild Mind: Living the Writer's Life

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#17

“I remember a friend many years ago who had taped a sign to his refrigerator: There's a dream dreaming us. If you try to think about what that means it makes your mind silly, but that silliness is good.”
― Natalie Goldberg, Wild Mind: Living the Writer's Life

tags: dreams, inception, silliness

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#18

“Writing is the act of discovery.”
― Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

tags: writing, writing-advice, writing-life

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#19

“I think talent is like a water table under the earth—you tap it with your effort and it comes through you.”
― Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

tags: talent, writing

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#20

“Know that you will eventually have to leave everything behind; the writing will demand it of you.”
― Natalie Goldberg

tags: loneliness, solitude, writing

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#21

“As writers we live life twice, like a cow that eats its food once and then regurgitates it to chew and digest it again. We have a second chance at biting into our experience and examining it. ...This is our life and it's not going to last forever. There isn't time to talk about someday writing that short story or poem or novel. Slow down now, touch what is around you, and out of care and compassion for each moment and detail, put pen to paper and begin to write.”
― Natalie Goldberg

tags: care, compassion, cow, detail, examination, experience, forever, life, live, living, moment, moments, novel, paper, pen, poem, short-story, touch, write, writers, writing

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#22

“To encounter a fine book
and have time to read it
is a wonderful thing.”
― Natalie Goldberg

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#23

“Handwriting is more connected to the movement of the heart.”
― Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

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#24

“If you're having difficulty coming up with new ideas, then slow down. For me, slowing down has been a tremendous source of creativity. It has allowed me to open up -- to know that there's life under the earth and that I have to let it come through me in a new way. Creativity exists in the present moment. You can't find it anywhere else.”
― Natalie Goldberg

tags: feeling-trapped-slow-down

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#25

“Take out another notebook, pick up another pen, and just write, just write, just write. In the middle of the world, make one positive step. In the center of chaos, make one definitive act. Just write. Say yes, stay alive, be awake. Just write. Just write. Just write.”
― Natalie Goldberg

tags: writing

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#26

“You live and then you die, I thought. It's good to have some good times.”
― Natalie Goldberg, The Great Failure: A Bartender, A Monk, and My Unlikely Path to Truth

tags: dying, enjoyment, life, living

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#27

“And don't worry too much about security. You will eventually have a deep security when you begin to do what you want.”
― Natalie Goldberg

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#28

“Let yourself live in something that is already rightfully yours—your own wild mind.”
― Natalie Goldberg, Wild Mind: Living the Writer's Life

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#29

“In the middle of the world, make one positive step. In the center of chaos, make one definitive act. Just write.”
― Natalie Goldberg

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#30

“There is freedom in being a writer and writing. It is fulfilling your function. I used to think freedom meant doing whatever you want. It means knowing who you are, what you are supposed to be doing on this earth, and then simply doing it.”
― Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

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