"A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death. It not only gives us fortitude to bear pain but teaches us at every step the precarious tenure on which we hold our present being."

Courage, Action, Danger, Fear, Fortitude

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"A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death. It not only gives us fortitude to bear pain but teaches us at every step the precarious tenure on which we hold our present being."

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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."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

Courage, Sea, Fear, Life

"Don't allow life to pass you by because you are afraid of [looking] stupid."

Richie Norton, American Author

Courage, Fear, Stupidity, Life, Action

"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."

Richie Norton, American Author

Courage, Regret, Action, Choice, Opportunity

"You don't have to swim when you know how to walk on water."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Courage, Water, Faith, Trust, Survival

"Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Courage, Virtue, Testing

"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."

Maya Angelou, American Poet

Courage, Creation, Faith, Evolution

"It is those that are insulted by injustice that will refuse to be silenced."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Courage, Injustice, Voice, Resistance, Awareness

"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."

Donna Lynn Hope, Jamaican Author

Courage, Fear, Overcoming, Mastery

"Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall."

Ray Bradbury, American Writer

Courage, Will

"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."

Rainer Maria Rilke, German Poet

Courage, Existence, Fear, Acceptance

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"I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home."

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"There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love."

Friendship

"There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us."

Truth

"To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us."

Age

"If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago."

Literature

"We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit."

Self

"There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion."

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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."

"Don't allow life to pass you by because you are afraid of [looking] stupid."

"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."

"You don't have to swim when you know how to walk on water."

"Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point."

"It is those that are insulted by injustice that will refuse to be silenced."

"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."

"Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall."

"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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"The incentive to ambition is the love of power."

"I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about."

"Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them."

"I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home."

"There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love."

"There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us."

"To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us."

"If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago."

"We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit."

"There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion."