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A.J. Darkholme

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in Winnipeg, Canada

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Fantasy, Self Help, Psychology

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A. J. Darkholme is a Canadian author and poet kickstarting his career with the highly-anticipated self-help fantasy series, "The Morningstar Chronicles". The first book in the series, Rise of the Morningstar, debuted on Amazon.com at #1...001,718. He lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba, where he works for the federal government, runs his own creative and technology business, and spends a lot of time thinking up new ways to keep life interesting, one day at a time. ...more

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How To Be Successful When Nothing Is Going As Expected

We grew up having dreams. BIG dreams. Dreams like:

- One day being the President of the United States (even though you’re in Grade 1… in Canada).
- Wanting to be an astronaut who spends all day traveling through space.
- Wishing to become a young wizard at Hogwarts after you waited ever-so-patiently for an owl to deliver your acceptance letter when you became of age.

And what was going to happen wh

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Rise of the Morningstar (The Morningstar Chronicles, #1)

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“The most inefficient and self-harming thing a person can do is go out looking for love. Let it find you when the time is right and you're out doing what you love to do. Only then will you find it in its truest form.”
― A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar

tags: efficiency, inefficient, life, love, patience, searching, self-harm, soul-searching, time, timing, truth, waiting

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“Memories are meant to serve you, not enslave you.”
― A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar

tags: acceptance, memories, past, perspective, self-preservation, struggles, understanding

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“Every man walks his own path, and every path has its fair share of locked doors. You never know who holds the key to a door you’ll need to open one day, so you best treat people as if they are all keyholders.”
― A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar

tags: act, actions, awareness, battles, careful, caution, choice, choices, destiny, doors, expertise, gains, hear, humility, importance, important, influence, insignificance, keyholders, keys, listening, locked, manipulation, others, path, people, perspective, persuasion, potential, respect, significance, significant, tolerance, understanding, words

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“You don’t have to keep living in a dystopia simply because you’re strong and noble enough to accept it.”
― A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar

tags: acceptance, change, dystopia, noble, strength, strong, weakness

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“Like tiny gods, all that we say and do holds a power so great that any one of us in any given moment can be responsible for the birth of a new civilization or the collapse of our own.”
― A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar

tags: act, action, actions, awareness, birth, care, careful, caution, choice, choices, collapse, ethics, greatness, importance, important, mass-influence, morality, others, people, potential, power, preservation, protection, pursuits, responsibility, self-awareness, self-control, significance, significant, tiny-gods

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“Without purpose and meaning in our lives, we banish ourselves to wander this plane of existence with self-destructive tendencies until the bell tolls and our breath capsizes in our lungs, snatching our chance to redeem ourselves forever.”
― A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar

tags: breath, capsize, choice, choices, existence, importance, important, lungs, meaning, meaninglessness, perspective, purpose, redemption, self-awareness, self-improvement, significance, significant

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“People respond more to the authority of status, than the authority of truth.”
― A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar

tags: authority, leadership, peers, status, truth

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“We are but cells living in a much larger organism, however, this does not make our existence less significant – for an organism without cells is no organism at all. We define it; we make it what it is. We are responsible for its health, its functionality, and above all, its purpose. A lone cell can restore the others, or a lone cell can spread a plague.”
― A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar