"A warrior accepts defeat. He does not treat it as a matter of indifference nor does he try to make a victory of it."
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"On some nights, he has nowhere to sleep, on others he suffers from insomnia. "That's just how it is," thinks the warrior. "I was the one who chose to walk this path.""
"So it is that good warriors take their stance on ground where they cannot lose, and do not overlook conditions that make an opponent prone to defeat."
"Excellent warriors are not violent."
"There is something of the warrior in me."
"Wounded Warriors tell me they're not just going to walk again, they're going to run, and they're going to run marathons!"
"The moment that he begins to walk along it, the warrior of the light recognizes the path."
"A Warrior of Light values a child's eyes because they are able to look at the world without bitterness. When he wants to find out if the person beside him is worthy of his trust, he tries to see him as a child would"
"Every Warrior of the Light has suffered for the most trivial of reasons."
"When we feel left out, inadequate, or lonely, can we take a warrior’s perspective and contact bodhichitta?"
"A warrior may change his metal, but not his heart."
"You know, boy versus girl. But she's a tough warrior, so I almost treated it like unisex. But it makes a difference how tall the actors are, because I needed to know that if Olivia Wilde sits in a car that the director, Joe Kosinski can still get the angle he wants, as opposed to maybe in another vehicle than Jeff Bridges has to sit in. So that was fascinating. Because in a real car you change everything and adjust it. But here you have one shot."
"If one man kills a hundred men, and another man masters himself, the second man is the much greater warrior."
"I saw pale kings and princes too, Pale warriors, death-pale were they all; They cried- "La Belle Dame sans Merci Hath thee in thrall!"
"The warrior knows that he is free to choose his desires, and he makes these decisions with courage, detachment, and - sometimes - with just a touch of madness."
"A Warrior of the Light has no regrets, because regrets can kill."
"For the warrior, there is no "better" or "worse"; everyone has the necessary gifts for his particular path."
"No one is entirely good or evil; that is what the Warrior thinks when he has a new opponent."
"The Warrior is terrified when making important decisions."
"A Warrior also knows that the fool who gives advice about someone else's garden is not tending his own plants."