Quotes by Chris Matakas

We must remember that regardless of our differences in rank we are all equal as human beings. You can always tell how caring and compassionate others are in their actions towards those below them. Of course you are going to treat your black belt professor kindly, but how do you treat the white belt taking their first class? In spite of the division in belt rank there must be no division as people.

Your progress as a Jiu Jitsu practitioner is a direct reflection of the standards you have for yourself.

Empathy is a breaking down of the false constructs of division between the observer and the observed.

The secular world often finds its constituents disenfranchised and solitary as it has spent a great deal of time debating the religious community while failing to build a true community of its own.

All these men recognized what they themselves valued, and lived according to these values regardless of their relationship to the values of their community. Each lived according to what brought them happiness and peace rather than commonplace prescriptions of the multitudes.

We are only different because there exists something to be different from, and it is this difference that bonds us.

Jesus was not a carpenter forever.

Anyone who has ever achieved anything has been a steward of his potential.

An intelligent consistency is the foundation of genius.

There are no trophies for the real victories in life.

I have never been as alive or awake as I have been through Jiu Jitsu.

Who you are as a person far outweighs what you do in an athletic arena.

Life is a constant build up and release of tension. If we go too far in either direction bad things happen.

We can lose the roll, we can lose position, but we can constantly strive to win the moment.

The more closely two organisms depend upon each other the harder it becomes to tell where one organism ends and the other begins.

Anyone can be tough for a season. It takes a special kind of human to rise to lifes challenges for a lifetime.

It is a shock to many college graduates that their segway into the real world is one of obligation, profound debt, and countless sacrifices of the soul.

Our most valuable victories are those which go without praise.