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Why is a caterpillar wrapped in silk while it changes into a butterfly? So the other caterpillar can’t hear the screams. Change hurts. —Rory Miller, Meditations on Violence
You wonder which of your sins summoned the man who put his boot to your chest and sent you flying.
“Choosing to change is not something you do once. It’s something you have to wake up every day and choose to do again…”
“Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”
At times, because of one man’s evil, ten thousand people suffer. So you kill that one man to let the tens of thousands live. Here, truly, the blade that deals death becomes the sword that saves lives. —Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai
It’s better to move than let fear make its case.
“The difference between humility and humiliation is willingness,” Kenji says. “Ultimately, it’s not for them. It’s for me.”
Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing. —Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
Grace means that all of your mistakes now serve a purpose instead of serving shame. —Brené Brown
If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you. —Genghis Khan
