As we all know, life can be tough and to thrive in the jungle of life, one needs to be a lover and a fighter both – but despite the challenges, it can feel GREAT! to harness our full potential and to face life

standing fully in our power.  

 

On the wisdom, compassion and integrity of a Warrior...

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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.  Anais Nin

 

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.  Muhammad Ali

 

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.  Amelia Earhart

 

Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.  George Bernard Shaw

 

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.  Norah Ephron

 

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.  Confucius

 

Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.  Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

‎I wish neither to possess nor to be possessed. I no longer covet 'paradise'. More important, I no longer fear 'hell'. The medicine for my suffering I had within me from the very beginning but I did not take it. My ailment came from within myself, but I did not observe it, until this moment. Now I see that I will never find the light unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel, consuming myself.  Bruce Lee

 

When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'

Eleanor Roosevelt

 

I feel like young girls are told, I don’t know, that they have to be this kind of princess and fragile. It’s bullshit. I identify much more with being a warrior, a fighter. If I was going to be a princess I’d be a warrior princess definitely.  Emma Watson

 

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.  Steve Jobs

 

 The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.  Leo Tolstoy

 

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.  Saint Francis de Sales

 

I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.  Madeline Albright

 

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.  Winston Churchill

 

If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream.  Martin Luther King Jnr

 

Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts. Each time we drop our complaints and allow everyday good fortune to inspire us, we enter the warrior's world.  Pema Chodron

 

Untroubled, scornful, outrageous - that is how wisdom wants us to be: she is a woman and never loves anyone but a warrior. Friedrich Nietzsche

 

The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.  Bruce Lee

 

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.

Henry Ford

 

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.  Coco Chanel

 

 The Way of the Warrior has been misunderstood. It is not a means to kill and destroy others. Those who seek to compete and better one another are making a terrible mistake. To smash, injure, or destroy is the worst thing a human being can do. The real Way of a Warrior is to prevent such slaughter – it is the Art of Peace, the power of love.  Morihei Ueshiba

 

He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.  Confucius

 

I'm a warrior for the middle class.  Barack Obama

 

We need courage and strength, a kind of warrior spirit. But the place for this warrior strength is in the heart. We need a warrior’s heart that lets us face our lives directly, our pains and limitations, our joys and possibilities.

I used to think that to become free you had to practice like a samurai warrior, but now I understand that you have to practice like a devoted mother of a newborn child. It takes the same energy but has a completely different quality. It's compassion and presence rather than having to defeat the enemy in battle.  Jack Kornfield

 

I wish I'd known from the beginning that I was born a strong woman. What a difference it would have made! I wish I'd known that I was born a courageous woman; I've spent so much of my life cowering. How many conversations would I not only have started but finished if I had known I possessed a warrior's heart? I wish I'd known that I'd be born to take on the world; I wouldn't have run from it for so long, but run to it with open arms.  Sarah ban Breathnach

 

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.  Maya Angelou

 

Although the warrior's life is dedicated to helping others, he realizes that he will never be able to completely share his experience with others...Yet he is more and more in love with the world. That combination of love affair and loneliness is what enables the warrior to constantly reach out to help others. By renouncing his private world, the warrior discovers a greater universe and a fuller and fuller broken heart. This is not something to feel bad about; it is a cause for rejoicing.  Chogyam Trungpa

 

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.  John F Kennedy

 

 Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.  Michel de Montaigne

 

 When I was young, I believed that life might unfold in an orderly way, according to my hopes and expectations. But now I understand that the Way winds like a river, always changing, ever onward.. My journeys revealed that the Way itself creates the warrior; that every path leads to peace, every choice to wisdom. And that life has always been, and will always be, arising in Mystery.  Socrates

 

Mental bearing (calmness), not skill, is the sign of a matured samurai. 

My art is different than yours; it consists not in defeating others, but in not being defeated. Tsukahara Bokuden

 

My childhood was very difficult. I had every childhood disease and then some, but my parents didn’t mollycoddle me. They left me to fight those battles on my own. I guess that was very Canadian, very stoic. But its good. I had to become a warrior. I had to give up hope and find a substitute for hope that would be far more stable.  Joni Mitchell

 

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.  Martin Luther King Jnr

 

The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to infinity.  Carlos Castaneda

 

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.  Albert Einstein

 

To be a warrior is to learn to be genuine in every moment of your life.  Chogyam Trungpa

 

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.  Benjamin Franklin

 

Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours.  Ayn Rand

 

We don't rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training.  Archilochus

 

I'm more of a warrior than you'll ever be. I believe in the class war. I believe in the battle of the sexes. I believe in my tribe. I believe in the righteous, intelligent clued-up section of the working classes against the brain-dead moronic masses as well as the mediocre, soulless bourgeoisie.  Irvine Welsh

 

Women should be tough, tender, laugh as much as possible, and live long lives. The struggle for equality continues unabated, and the woman warrior who is armed with wit and courage will be among the first to celebrate victory.  Maya Angelou

 

When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous. We are timid only when there is something we can still cling to.

Carlos Castaneda

 

For us, warriors are not what you think of as warriors. The warrior is not someone who fights, because no one has the right to take another life. The warrior, for us, is one who sacrifices himself for the good of others. His task is to take care of the elderly, the defenseless, those who can not provide for themselves, and above all, the children, the future of humanity.  Sitting Bull

 

You've got to follow your passion. You've got to figure out what it is you love--who you really are. And have the courage to do that. I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams.  Ophrah Winfrey

 

Just fully being skillful involves total lack of inhibition. We are not afraid to be. We are not afraid to live. We must accept ourselves as being warriors. If we acknowledge ourselves as warriors, then there is a way in, because a warrior dares to be, like a tiger in the jungle.  Chogyam Trungpa

 

To be a spiritual warrior means to develop a special kind of courage, one that is innately intelligent, gentle, and fearless. Spiritual warriors can still be frightened, but even so they are courageous enough to taste suffering, to relate clearly to their fundamental fear, and to draw out without evasion the lessons from difficulties.  Sogyal Rinpoche

 

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.  Aristotle

 

I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.

John Quincy Adams

 

The reason why we're warriors is that we rise to the occasion; anyone that's felt like the system put them down, and then they rose to the occasion, they're a warrior. It's not about whether you come from the hood or you come from the suburbs, you know what I mean? It's about reality and life.

Wyclef Jean

 

I think hip-hop could help rebuild America, once hip-hoppers own hip-hop... We are our own politicians, our own government, we have something to say. We're warriors. Soldiers.  Nas

 

It is from the numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.  Robert Kennedy

 

It is wonderful. It truly is. It is the only thing that is real! It's you against me, it's challenging another guy's manhood. With gloves. Words cannot describe that feeling of being a man, of being a gladiator, of being a warrior. It's irreplaceable.  Sugar Ray Leonard

 

The warrior’s approach is to say ‘yes’ to life: ‘yes’ to it all.  Joseph Campbell

 

Cowards never win victories. We have to fight fear and troubles and ignorance if we expect them to flee before us.  Swami Vivekananda

 

Logic and cold reason are poor weapons to fight fear and distrust. Only faith and generosity can overcome them.  Jawarhalal Nehru

 

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.  Nelson Mandela

 

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.  Charlie Chaplin

 

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.  John Irving

 

Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their peers, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world that yields most painfully to change.  Robert Kennedy

 

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.  Soren Kierkegaard

 

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.  Martin Luther King Jnr

 

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.  Eleanor Roosevelt

 

Fortune befriends the bold.  Emily Dickinson

 

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.  John F Kennedy

 

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.  Harper Lee

 

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.  Lao Tzu

 

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.  Seneca the Younger

 

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.  Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.  Martin Luther King Jnr

 

Courage is more exhilarating than fear, and in the long run, it is easier.  Eleanor Roosevelt

 

For without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of courage with which men have lived.  John F Kennedy

 

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.  ee cummungs