True Blue Quotes

“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

“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

“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

“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

“You can trick the world by creating a false reality, but you can't trick your goals by doing the same. They are seeds that only grow from being watered by actual sweat and tears.”
― Dushawn Banks, True Blue

“A woman having pretty eyes is one thing; but the look that she gives me is another. It's more about the action for me.”
― Dushawn Banks, True Blue

“To have someone that inner-stands us is soulmate levels of knowledge. To be inner-stood is soulmate levels of pleasure. Innerstanding is such a privileged view of someone.”
― 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 familv 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

“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

“Every day we are faced with problems, but we only call them problems when we can’t solve them. Knowledge will fix anything. Knowledge of God. Knowledge of Self. Knowledge of Man. Knowledge of Nature.”
― 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

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

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

“Helping other people will bless you; but taking on other people’s problems may kill you.”
― Dushawn Banks, True Blue

“Prison is being stuck anywhere that you don’t want to be.”
― Dushawn Banks, True Blue

“If we could trade lives with other people we would probably switch lives so often that we would soon get back to ours.”
― Dushawn Banks, True Blue

“You are allowed to have an opinion on anything. Whether we should be allowed to have an opinion on everything is an opinion in itself. I listen to opinion, but I rather invest in fact.”
― Dushawn Banks, True Blue

“Lies change, but truth is always there. Truth haunts us until we accept them.”
― Dushawn Banks, True Blue

“Many problems only continue to exist in perspective. Problems only burden us when we don’t know how to solve them. Let’s say that you are crying because your city’s water shuts off for a weekend. In another country water for a weekend is a blessing. They will kiss the ground and say, “God is real.” Every country won’t understand our problems like we may not understand another country’s problems. I stopped saying that I have problems because I don’t. I approach problems, but I don’t keep them with me.”
― Dushawn Banks, True Blue

“We were created in the perfect balance of difference, so we have to stop getting emotionally attached to our gifts. We were taught that equal is a mirror, but it doesn’t have to be. It doesn’t matter to the bird that the fish swims to his dinner. It doesn’t matter to the fish that cheetah runs to her dinner. They all equally accomplished a goal in a different way. I don’t think that our creator intended for men and women to be the same, but I do think that there are many skills that we can learn from each other.”
― Dushawn Banks, True Blue

“Hate is a form of hurt.”
― Dushawn Banks, True Blue

“As you exist in the world among other people you may experience hate. A lot of times people will hate you because you remind them of their insecurities. You remind them of what they don’t like about themselves. You remind them of what they dreamed to be or have. You may sit and worry about the uncontrollable; but think about this. How do you expect someone to like you when they don’t even like themselves?”
― Dushawn Banks, True Blue

“Everything is alive. Everything is a form of everything. A human body consists of many things and the same goes for the sky. A body contains water; a thing is named by its outer shell. A body doesn’t die; it’s shell just turns into another form. If a body is burned it turns into ashes, which turns into another form of life.”
― Dushawn Banks, True Blue

“Appreciate the jungle's beauty, but watch out for snakes as well. That's balance to me.”
― Dushawn Banks, True Blue

“Sometimes our new mindset doesn't align with our old lives. We've spent our whole lives conquering the wrong mountain and now we are so afraid to leave the top. Though our new mindset would no longer allow us to be happy on this mountain, we are still hesitant. We were taught our whole life that life is one mountain. One career path, one relationship, one purpose, and one box. We are so scared to be at the foot of the right mountain. So used to being Kings and Queens that we are scared to get back to the foundation of the pyramid; a place where if you tell your new peers about your past while going through your new mountain's challenges, they won't believe. Most of the time we aren't happy because we're trading social acceptance for peace. How ignorant are we to think that life is just one mountain? God may bless us with 70 years to be productive, but we want to lay down in 5. Don't be scared to be at the foot of another mountain; because when you stop growing you die.”
― Dushawn Banks, True Blue

“Different levels of growth are inevitable. Love and attachment are also inevitable. Therefore, conflict and heartbreak are inevitable as well. We all know that the world’s creations are destined for different heights so some will reach their limit of growth before others. We express our love, attachment, and heartbreak in different ways so on your journey you may reach conflict. At this point always understand that it is just a part of the process of evolution. We ask for one, but we can’t have it without the other.”
― Dushawn Banks, True Blue

“Be basic with anything. Not art though.”
― Dushawn Banks, True Blue