A.J. Darkholme

It__ amazing how just dressing differently can affect your influence; dress like a beggar and your assumed poverty gains you looks of contempt; dress in gold-lined robes and people are more willing to accommodate you; sport armour and you look strong, dutiful, and prepared.

You must always focus on and pursue the good, but when that darkness surges up from within, you need to know how to handle it, use it, and release it wisely, not just deny its presence or acceptability as you suppress it within you.

Change isn't always comfortable, but it always teaches us something of utmost importance _ usually about ourselves _ and we become better people for it.

Sometimes you just have to know when the battle you__e fighting is one best walked away from, than fought to the cold, bitter end.

If you plan for failure, then you are expecting to fail. If you plan for success, you__l be successful. Once you start making a __lan B_, you distract from __lan A_, and the moment you start believing there are other options, you start settling for less.

The only way we succeed as a group is not simply following directions, but in keeping each other accountable for our actions.

Some people are born to hold keys, while others are born to use them.

Greatness is not a gift that one can give to another, but rather is a thief's relic that we must take for ourselves.

Don__ let the fact you haven__ done something before convince you that you can__ do it, or that it cannot be done perfectly the first time you try your hand at it.

To get to where you need to be, you have to go where you don't feel prepared to go.

We__e all blurry-eyed wanderers of time, and the unfortunance of it all is that we__ probably all go on to do great things if only we searched for what corrected and focused our vision instead of relying on our past _ life__ grand kaleidoscope _ to help us find our way forward.

They say you can__ change the past despite the fact it never stops changing you _ but that doesn't mean we have to sit back and take it. It may change us, but we have ultimate control over how we let it.

We are but cells living in a much larger organism, however, this does not make our existence less significant _ for an organism without cells is no organism at all. We define it; we make it what it is. We are responsible for its health, its functionality, and above all, its purpose. A lone cell can restore the others, or a lone cell can spread a plague.

Your life is not a countdown to your death, but a stepping stone for the lives that will live after you. Squander today, and you will find yourself useless tomorrow.

What's the use in prolonging life if you don't do anything with it?

The world is changeable, and its ability to change is so fragile that a single person can be responsible for it.

The older you get, the faster time passes in your mind, so use your time according to what is most important.

Life is what you make it and legacy is what you leave it. Stop trying to be perfect, stop waiting for perfection to find you, and start making your environment a product of you instead of the other way around.