J-Live Quotes
Once you cross the threshold, you will never be the same. That is a fact.
There is one rule, though: once you discover your truth, you have to go all in. Fully. Every single chip.
Knowledge is never enough. Even action, if it's just following a prescribed way, will never fully express your potential.
You dive deeper, you strip away the cleverness and the words become more important than your ego and that's when you know it's real, when it's good.
Jiu Jitsu is the vehicle. Not the road.
Each of us is the best we can be when we are fully present, focused yet relaxed, curious yet non-judgmental, committed yet flexible.
You cannot do what's important now for you if your mind cannot accept what is happening in this present moment.
When you are present, you are not needy.
When you are authentic without an intent to harm others, you give yourself an awesome feeling which is the feeling of self-love.
There is one undeniable truth about our body: it only exists in the present moment.
The Paradox of Change: People can only change when they feel accepted as they are now. Dr. Arnold Beisser Pg 220
...as long as you are motivated by the approval of others, you cannot know with confidence whether the decisions you are making in your life are what's right for you... pg 102
It is in everyone's interest that every person's creative genius be encouraged and allowed to develop and express.
The willingness to be a champion for stupid ideas is the key to greater creativity, innovation, fulfillment, inspiration, motivation and success.
You can’t let fear and indecision sink your creativity—they do not easily release their hold.
We are successful the moment we start toward a laudable goal
The young man only looks to the future because he has lived little
Overcome the prideful need to measure your worth by how much more successful you are than others, by operating from a core belief grounded in abundance.
Doubt keeps us from believing things can get better.
When your words enter the material world in the form of ink or on screen, you are immediately afforded the opportunity to judge their worth.
To try to pray is to pray. You can't fail at it. It's the only human endeavor I can think of where trying is doing. Reaching out is holding on. Joining in is letting go.
Sometimes we have to think of the worst so we can figure out how to pick up the pieces and move on. Don't let life slap you with a cold shock
Footsteps of success, are trailed by fading footprints, of failures past..
The world around us conforms to expectations we place upon it.
It's better to die chasing a dream never caught than to die never having chased the dream.
Not only is the experience of learning inspiring, the results are fulfilling.
In mastering one thing, you have mastered all things because you have learned how to learn.
Life without challenge is life denied any chance for one to achieve.
This is what it means to be mindful. To watch the thoughts as they come and go without judgment while completely accepting what arises in the present moment.
You are the space in which these thoughts arise, but not the thoughts themselves.
For many of us, especially being so fortunate to live in a first-world country, the vast majority of pain we experience is due to the seriousness with which we identify with our thoughts.
I know none of this seems very believable. It probably doesn't even make sense. But for once in your life, please, I am asking you to trust me. Trust yourself.
We don’t come out of the womb thinking negatively about ourselves or others. We aren’t born talking ourselves out of our true needs and wants.
Trust is the bridge from yesterday to tomorrow, built with planks of thanks.
START: Serve, Thank, Ask, Receive, Trust
Your life has intrinsic value, not simply because of who you are as an individual, but because of who He is as your God.
The rare opportunity to exist, no matter how brief, is worth the pain left in the wake of its disappearance.
The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not ‘get over’ the loss of a loved one
When the dream that was no longer can be, you have to dream a different dream.
And like anyone who is in valiant pursuit of a dream, the ups and downs come and go, but the dream lives in the heart forever.
Anyone who ever bet against you was wrong. Don’t let their opinion blind you from your reality. You were not meant to live their life
Joe closed his hand over the watch and it was still warm from his father's pocket, ticking against his palm like a heart.
When you change your story that you tell about yourself, you change your life. You can start telling a better story right now.