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Category: A.J. Darkholme

We stay the same as we’ve always been, keeping to the path we’ve walked our whole lives. Paths that carry so much importance and perceived stability that we are utterly convinced it is the only one to walk – that anyone not walking it with us is being misled.

acceptance, caution, change, ethics, habit, hear, heard, importance, important, life, lifetime, listening, misleading, misled, morality, morals, others, path, people, persuasion, respect, stability

If someone was going to kill someone dear to you, and you could stop that person by killing them instead, would you kill them, knowing it was an effective way to save your loved one?

dilemma, ethics, morality, morals, murder

You believe stealing is wrong, but if your family was starving and could not afford bread, wouldn’t you say it’s okay to steal a loaf to feed them?

acceptability, bread, ethics, food, morality, morals, stealing, wrong

Our knees get dusty from time to time, but when they touch the ground, we must never allow the dust to convince us that our submission in that moment is the acceptance of our defeat for an entire lifetime.

acceptance, dusty, knees, lifetime, moment, self-awareness, submission

Sometimes you just need to know when a fight is best saved for another day when the odds are more in your favour.

favor, favour, fight, odds, patience, self-awareness, self-control, self-preservation, waiting

Greed robs you of more value than the price of what you’ve gained.

gains, greed, price, self-awareness, self-control, value

Let your fear drive you to evolve into greatness.

evolution, fear, greatness, self-awareness, self-doubt

What separates us into engineers and robots, puppeteers and puppets, kings and pawns, is not the status we hold at any given time among others – status is irrelevant; it is the level of ever-present awareness we have of a grey-matter tailor’s tools [of flattery, persuasion, and cunning.]

Once you start settling, and letting others control your life, it can quickly become a habit, so it’s best to avoid such things altogether.

awareness, choice, choices, control, fear, free, freedom, habit, life, others, people, self-awareness, settling

We are creatures of habit more than we are creatures of change.

change, creatures, fear, habit, humanity, insecurity, preservation, self-awareness

Sometimes the heart can hear what the ears do not.

ears, hear, heart, observation, perception, self-awareness

The values most important to us are always the most easily exploitable.