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"Don't be afraid to fall into the sea. Close your eyes and jump, for you will fall on the back of a big fish which will carry you to your destination."
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Personal Development
"Don't allow life to pass you by because you are afraid of [looking] stupid."
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Personal Development
"Do you ever see someone doing something cool and you say to yourself, "I could do that" ... And then you don't? Ask yourself, why not? Honestly, why not? You really may not have a reason to do it, but if you'd regret not doing it? That's a whole other story."
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"We need the courage to create ourselves daily, to be bodacious enough to create ourselves daily - as Christians, as Jews, as Muslims, as thinking, caring, laughing, loving human beings. I think that the courage to confront evil and turn it by dint of will into something applicable to the development of our evolution, individually and collectively, is exciting, honorable."
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Personal Development
"I'd rather meander through a pit of vipers than love one more person, but since I'm on the subject of snakes, we all know one, or are one."
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Personal Development
"That is fundamentally the only courage which is demanded of us: to be brave in the face of the strangest, most singular and most inexplicable things that can befall us."
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Personal Development
"Proclaim now that you refuse to die without fully living!"
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Personal Development
"Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes."
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Personal Development
"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."
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"There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing."
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"If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'"
Heart
"I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble."
Trouble
"San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty."
Beauty
"All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They."
People
"For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one."
Sin
"Heaven grant us patience with a man in love."
Love
"An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy."
Family
"If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten."
History
"Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old."
Old
"One paid for one's knowledge with one's skin."
Education
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