We are now forced to actively pursue our struggles. If we do not go out of our way to stretch our comfort zones and grow, no one nor nature will do it for us.

Jiu Jitsu has given me an education in education, which I now see is the most valuable education there is.

Things can be added, but that doesn't mean that anything is missing.

Habits are infinitely more beneficial to the aspiring student than motivation. Motivation may get you started, but habits keep you going.

Just know that the achievement of anything grand takes consistent effort year after year. Motivation can uphold you intermittently, but it has too few calories to sustain a life.

Systems and processes will always surpass motivation.

We see that happiness is not comfort. Happiness is the freedom to choose one's own way.

Jiu Jitsu uses us to express itself, and the best thing we can do to is to become a vehicle capable of expressing Jiu Jitsu with all of its perfection minus our imperfections.

I have found that the morning is far more accessible when a good book awaits you.

We are just too busy trying to appear smart to realize how intelligent we actually are.

I firmly believe that life will continually try to teach you the same lesson, with increasing pain, until you heed the call.

Fiction has the ability to show us what we don’t know and what doesn’t happen.

the book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. once invented, it cannot be improved

The beauty of this world where almost everyone was gone. If hell is other people, what is a world with almost no people in it?

I can be much more sarcastic and, I think, sometimes withering in my assessments of things than I allow to show in my public life.

Sookie," Eric said. I didn't think he'd heard a word. "Yield to me." Well, that was pretty direct.

One side of the street is a Church; across the road is a liquor store. Both of 'em keepin us poor.

Projects of personal transformation rarely succeed by accident, drift, or imposition.

The death of a library, any library, suggests that the community has lost its soul.

There's no one thing you can do to have success, but if you have a plan and you keep doing things, you'll eventually build to a success.

My experience as a pastor is lots of people have really toxic, dangerous, psychologically devastating images of God in their head, images of a God who's not good.