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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
Mathilda: Is life always this hard, or is it just when you’re a kid? Léon: Always like this. —The Professional
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
The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves. —Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
Bowing is an expression of gratitude and respect. In effect, you are thanking your opponent for giving you an opportunity to improve your technique. —Jigoro Kano, the founder of judo
“The difference between humility and humiliation is willingness,” Kenji says. “Ultimately, it’s not for them. It’s for me.”
It isn’t the mountains ahead that wear you down. It’s the pebble in your shoe. —Muhammad Ali
Some people think of recovery as a destination. Really, it’s a path you travel for the rest of your life, and the finish line is perpetually over the horizon. You have to learn to be happy with the journey. To be the journey.
Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing. —Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
Anger may in time change to gladness; vexation may be succeeded by content. But a kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; nor can the dead ever be brought back to life. —Sun Tzu, The Art of War
when you spend as much time around guns as I do, sometimes you wonder what it would be like, to wrap your lips around the barrel. You appreciate the precision of death.
it reminded me there was a whole universe out there. That the world wasn’t so small.
Grace means that all of your mistakes now serve a purpose instead of serving shame. —Brené Brown
