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.
Memories are meant to serve you, not enslave you.
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.
Trust is not a gasoline-soaked blanket that succumbs to the matches of betrayal, never able to be used for its warmth again; it’s a tapestry that wears thin in places, but can be patched over if you have the right materials, circumstances, and patience to repair it. If you don’t, you’re always the one who feels the coldest when winter comes.
Always hear others out and remain open-minded; the day you think you know everything is the day you have the most yet to learn.
There is stability in walking an uncertain path, because you never allow yourself to be misled by what you think you know.
The most fulfilling adventures happen when you start your journey without knowing where you’re going, because only then are you free to experience the unexpected detours you’re meant to take.
The lion does not need the whole world to fear him, only those nearest where he roams.
Sometimes you can grow more in a shorter amount of time with the right company than years of soul-searching alone, or by living the same patterns you’ve lived for your entire life.
When life brings you mountains, you don’t waste your time asking why; you spend your time climbing over them.
It’s not about being ready or feeling prepared all the time; sometimes you just have to do what you know you have to do. And when you do – you will always see that you’re more ready and more prepared than you realize. Never doubt yourself or you may never do anything of significance.
Sometimes you just have to know when the battle you’re fighting is one best walked away from, than fought to the cold, bitter end.
It’s true what they say, that words are the true weapons. Those who fight with steel are limited to the strength of their arm, the reach of their blade, and the timing of their strike; but those who fight with persuasion know no limits – not time, nor status, nor chance.
If you choose to keep your true face secret, then the people who know you by one mask, must never meet those who know you by another.
Sometimes to submit is to know you have a life worth living for a higher purpose, worth seeing through.
When you’re looking for a needle in a haystack, don’t afraid to burn the haystack to save yourself from spending half your life picking through strands of straw.
Our emotions hold more power over us than blade or poison alike. To embrace freely the entire spectrum of our emotions is to allow a multitude of Trojan horses containing hidden emotional poisons to circumvent the walls of rationalization – walls we need to protect our trust, confidence, understanding, and self-control.
Things happen, and nothing is for sure, but you just have to keep going, believing that one day, you’ll find something that is.