Top 120 A.J. Darkholme Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “It’s 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.”

— A.J. Darkholme

52. “Gaining satisfaction through accomplishments is and will always be a slippery slope, because there will come a time when you realize you have accomplished all that is within your power to accomplish in the realm of good, and will have nowhere else to turn but to the realms of greed and powerlust to find the satisfaction you crave.”

— A.J. Darkholme

53. “It is unwise to waste in thought what could be earned and secured in action.”

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54. “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.”

— A.J. Darkholme

55. “Without purpose and meaning in our lives, we banish ourselves to wander this plane of existence with self-destructive tendencies until the bell tolls and our breath capsizes in our lungs, snatching our chance to redeem ourselves forever.”

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56. “They say you can’t 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.”

— A.J. Darkholme

57. “We are creatures of habit more than we are creatures of change.”

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58. “If you refuse to accept what is, and choose to see what could be, then you set a course for yourself that makes others take notice of you, respect you, revere you. It is then that they become objects of your destiny instead of you playing a support role in theirs.”

— A.J. Darkholme

59. “To get to where you need to be, you have to go where you don’t feel prepared to go.”

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

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61. “Every choice in life sets us on a different path and carries its own set of “what ifs” and consequences that we could worry about, but what’s the use? Rather than plaguing our thoughts with the unknown, we should focus on and accept only what we do know – and all we know is the path we’re currently on.”

— A.J. Darkholme

62. “Time spent worrying – about anything – provides no emotional or physical benefit to us; such things only weaken us for the fights we must endure in our lives.”

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63. “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.”

— A.J. Darkholme

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

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65. “When all seems hopeless and all has gone silent, that’s Destiny turning down the music so that all may hear our response to life’s great storms, giving our response the chance to echo throughout eternity with the level of greatness it deserves.”

— A.J. Darkholme

66. “Trust is always a risk, but when placed in the right people after a trial period where they prove themselves worthy of it, it is a reward transcendent of all the emotional mire that bogs down a person’s potential.”

— A.J. Darkholme

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

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

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69. “No matter what, don’t live a life where you’re too scared to die for what you believe in. Always go at it with everything you’ve got, even if it doesn’t seem to be enough.”

— A.J. Darkholme

70. “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.”

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71. “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.”

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72. “Things happen, and nothing is for sure, but you just have to keep going, believing that one day, you’ll find something that is.”

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73. “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.”

— A.J. Darkholme

74. “Some only follow the holy man while others only follow the warlord. But the truth is, both sides are within all of us, and if people could only see that, they wouldn’t have to wear masks, or pretend to be holy like a holy man, or pretend that nothing can hurt them like a warlord. They could just be themselves, unjudged.”

— A.J. Darkholme

75. “Mistake this day as being like any other, and your deaths will go as unmourned as the insects of the field.”

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76. “Perspective alone can make an experience positive or negative, but regardless of which you let it become, it can only have as much power over your outlook on life as you give it.”

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77. “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.”

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78. “Sometimes the best way to learn a lesson isn’t just hearing the words, but putting it into practice by experimenting with it and finding its truth for yourself instead of taking someone else’s word for it.”

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79. “It is the crimson tongue that paints the world others think they see.”

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80. “Admiration provides no saving grace for the inconvenient.”

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81. “Power and influence: things that should be obtained not for means of greed, nor pride, nor ego, but rather to ensure that in the right moment, when your wisdom and benevolence are required to keep humanity strong and united, you can deliver and orchestrate others toward the greater good.”

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82. “The ignorance of the world often makes people believe that life should be black and white – that you must choose sides – and so the world of colourful gradients goes unadmired.”

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83. “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.”

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84. “You don’t have to keep living in a dystopia simply because you’re strong and noble enough to accept it.”

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85. “Where excess lies, usually someone had to give something up for the other to get it.”

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86. “Never judge a woman by her age.”

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87. “When you give people a choice, they believe they have power.”

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

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89. “Though there is much we still want, there is much we already have, and that means we have much to lose as well. It’s that potential loss that can keep us bound so tightly that we never reach our biggest dreams, because the biggest dreams require the most risk.”

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90. “All things are possible; if something seems like it’s not, it’s only because enough people aren’t being deceived into the possibilities yet.”

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91. “In the grand scheme of life, nobody grows old keeping their soul unblemished.”

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

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93. “We all need to humble ourselves from time to time and expose ourselves to new perspectives and ideas, even those of the non-experts, or else our growth potential gets weighed down with the ignorance of ego and habit.”

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94. “Like waking up in our home one night to find ourselves in a blazing fire, we must be arsonists of emotion, forcing ourselves to grab only what is truly important to us before our life-rafters collapse in on us and we can no longer escape alive.”

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95. “The amount of gold someone has is never the issue, but rather the love of it and the want of more for personal gain that consumes the hearts of many good people.”

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96. “Just because someone is a keyholder, does not mean they will always help you unlock the door you want to go through – no matter how much you think you deserve to go through it. Sometimes you just have to reach out and take it.”

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97. “The power of an idea is never to be underestimated. Many a thought has survived long after its host has ceased to be. It is the power of an idea that no shield can defend against, nor sword divide, nor poison infect. As such, we must aspire to create ideas, rather than preserve life. In a sense, this is how we achieve true immortality and live on past our time.”

— A.J. Darkholme

98. “When you give meaning to even the most meaningless of things around you, you will always stand to be taught something new, have what you already know reinforced, or be reminded of what you’ve forgotten.”

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99. “Anything you don’t want to deal with can always be written off as being “in the past” and ignored, but in doing so, you sweep it under a rug where it doesn’t go away with time – it becomes time itself, and takes on the illusion of life as we think we know it.”

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100. “We live our days in the microscopic, but something within us calls us to dream in the cosmic – every one of us. And within us exists those two worlds: the world as it is and the world as we think it ought to be.”

— A.J. Darkholme