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"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."
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"Better hazard once than always be in fear."
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Personal Development
"Only cowards leave words unspoken."
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"Live dangerously and you live right."
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Personal Development
"History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again."
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"Sometimes, despite how your heart feels, you have to do what you must in order to get the result you need. When it's impossible to walk away then you need to make it hurt and they will walk away for you."
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"What are you going to do? Are you going to live in the dark, locked in here? Afraid to look out, answer the door, leave? Yes, he's out there, and he's clearly not going to leave you alone until one of three things happens: he hurts you and gets arrested, or he makes a mistake and gets arrested, or you stop him."
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"Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it."
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"Some say "fear even helps like; The flight or over love reaction but to me it is your loving heart to prove to prove it worthy."
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"In this space, in this moment, we are who we want to be. I am lucky, because for me that doesn't take much courage. But for others, it takes a world of bravery to make it to the clearing."
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"Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are."
Adversity
"Passion can quickly slip to jealousy, or even hatred."
Courage
"Geisha because when I was living in Japan, I met a fellow whose mother was a geisha, and I thought that was kind of fascinating and ended up reading about the subject just about the same time I was getting interested in writing fiction."
Time
"Never give up; for even rivers someday wash dams away."
Creativity
"What I really wanted to know, though, was what it was like to be a geisha? Where do you sleep? What do you eat? How do you have your hair done?"
Hair
"What I had to do was keep the story within certain limits of what was, of course, plausible."
Writing
"It is confusing, because in this culture we really don't have anything that corresponds to geisha."
Cultural
"This character's entirely invented, and the woman that I interviewed wouldn't recognize herself, or really anything about herself, in this book, which she hasn't read, because she doesn't read English."
Character
"Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one."
Woman
"This time all the historical details and things were right. But I'd written it again in third person, and people found it dry. I decided to throw that one away."
Time
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