Top 120 A.J. Darkholme Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Greed robs you of more value than the price of what you’ve gained.”

— A.J. Darkholme

102. “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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103. “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

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

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105. “Our destinations are Booleans – we reach them or we don’t – but our journeys are spectrums, because there are so many paths we can take to our destination that make getting there that much better.”

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106. “Where there is desire, the means to fulfill it are endless.”

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107. “Never give up on the possibilities or accept what is when you can see it for what it could be.”

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108. “Don’t let realism keep you from doing what you feel you need to do, even if you think it’s hopeless.”

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109. “Your biggest dreams can become reality, not by brute-forcing the end-goal, but breaking it down into smaller, more manageable parts. If your goal takes years, breaking it down into months and days will let you improve your lot little bits at a time.”

— A.J. Darkholme

110. “When all is said and done, everyone should be able to look back on their life and know that they made it exactly as they wanted it to be.”

— A.J. Darkholme

111. “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.”

— A.J. Darkholme

112. “Love is one of the most motivating and self-defining forces in our lives, whether we turn from it or allow ourselves to be drawn to it. If you allow romantic possibilities with others to consume all your time and energy, they will distract you from the things of interest that fill your life with passion and purpose.”

— A.J. Darkholme

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

— A.J. Darkholme

114. “This day, you are free, because you have chosen to be free – and because of your choice, your days of insignificance are over.”

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115. “Love is not a purpose, it’s a paradox; it’s not an end-goal, it’s an auxiliary fuel source to help get there.”

— A.J. Darkholme

116. “Sometimes it’s best to trade an ideal for something more practical that you can guarantee.”

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

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118. “Time doesn’t always heal all wounds.”

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119. “Like tiny gods, all that we say and do holds a power so great that any one of us in any given moment can be responsible for the birth of a new civilization or the collapse of our own.”

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

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121. “Fear is for the powerless. Fear is for the alone. But as you stand together now, you are neither of those. Together, you amplify each other’s strengths; you nullify each other’s weaknesses.”

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122. “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.”

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123. “Sometimes to submit is to know you have a life worth living for a higher purpose, worth seeing through.”

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124. “Emotional states change like the wind, and to indulge them only gives them more power over a person.”

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125. “Awareness is not a prerequisite for change.”

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126. “Sometimes the heart can hear what the ears do not.”

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127. “No matter where you go, there’s always something to deal with; if it’s not greed, it’s lust, or envy, or pride, or something else. You just have to live your life so uncorrupted that it offsets the corruption as much as possible.”

— A.J. Darkholme

128. “What we don’t often realize is that the rebirth and collapse of grand things do not begin with grand things at all, like the things we see, but with the small, like the things we are – in the things we do – in the things we say.”

— A.J. Darkholme

129. “Some people experience a life-changing sensation that transforms how they see the world after a near-death experience, but the way I see it, we’re all dying – nay, we’re all dead – and it is up to us to be our own self-necromancers to find some form of life and spirit to reanimate the corpse of a life spent wanting.”

— A.J. Darkholme

130. “Sometimes it feels like you have nothing, or aren’t going anywhere, but while you’re waiting for fortune to deliver you, there is always something you can do to help yourself, or teach yourself to better your situation.”

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131. “In times of war, skepticism can be just cause for execution.”

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132. “We are united by something greater and more valuable than our beliefs alone: the freedom to have those beliefs, and believe what we want without persecution – we must protect that at all costs.”

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133. “Our lives consist of a series of internal battles, deep within us, where weapons don’t exist and technology is unable to create devices that better the best of yesterday. Our knowledge is our only defense; caution, our only friend.”

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134. “Perhaps we don’t progress, because there are so many views – so many paths to peace and happiness – that we get hung up on each path’s differences. Trying to sort out right from wrong when the rights mean so much to us that we can’t look at them objectively.”

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135. “Why spend your life working on defense when no defense can be made truly impenetrable? Take the offensive – learn the vulnerabilities of the world around you and be the change you wish to see rather than living in constant fear of what may happen to you instead.”

— A.J. Darkholme

136. “Emperors are not made from cowards; they are made from those who take great risk where there stands to be even greater gain.”

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137. “My happiness with the future and the present depends on my ability to let the past go and make peace with it.”

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138. “What seems like a flaw is merely our higher consciousness telling us we’re not looking at it in the right light yet.”

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