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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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"With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet."
Man
"Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me me."
Nature
"Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own."
Time
"With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing."
People
"The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it."
Nature
"Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads."
Idea
"What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?"
Experience
"The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing."
Imagination
"Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much."
Virtue
"The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism."
Nature
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