A.J. Darkholme

[Everything you write is] not simply a collection of words, but a means of influence not to be taken lightly. Let your recipient's emotions be the gondola, and your words, its gondolier.

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.

Despite our human intelligence, we are very much like our friends in the wild; the world we live in is a survival of the fittest. But to this I say, let the fittest survive! Survival is overrated. We__e alive; we die. How long we survive for is of little significance. Our true significance lies not in the endless comparing of ourselves to one another, trying to see who is the fittest, using scales of evaluation and meaning that differ in the heart and mind of every individual; no - it lies in our deeds alone with the time we have.

If your heart, mind, and actions are selfish, they will ultimately divide you, others, or entire [establishments]. When motivation is pure and selfless, it will result in helping bring others together.

Most physical battles begin once mental ones have been lost, anyway. Conquer the mind, conquer the body.

The mind thinks upon, processes, and remembers what the senses forget.

The more a mind thinks upon something, the deeper it will take root and affect all subsequent and related thought.

Trust is not a gasoline-soaked blanket that succumbs to the matches of betrayal, never able to be used for its warmth again; it__ 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__, you__e 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.

People respond more to the authority of status, than the authority of truth.

Being an authority on paper does not immediately grant you authority over a group until it is earned by you and given by them.

We must always be careful never to make more enemies than we could handle if they were all to attack at once.

All things are possible; if something seems like it__ not, it__ only because enough people aren't being deceived into the possibilities yet.

The questions we don__ ask become the puzzles we don__ solve.

Express [yourself] without worrying what everyone else will think. Those people are your limits. Ignore them.

People are more willing to change based on their perceived insecurities than by an attack on their beliefs.

A man shouldn't bite the hand that feeds him, even if another holds out a golden spoon to him as reward after his betrayal.

If we are to be truly free, that freedom will come through cooperation and tolerance with one another.