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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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Personal Development
"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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"Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space."
Nature
"One aged man - one man - can't fill a house."
Wisdom
"A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel."
Politics
"Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market."
Business
"There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate."
Wisdom
"Pressed into service means pressed out of shape."
Wisdom
"No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader."
Education
"I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world."
Wisdom
"I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power."
Leadership
"And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world."
Love
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