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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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"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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"Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything."
Courage
"Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up."
Clothes
"Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but mind; which experienced a similar fate from the hand of Mr. Hume in 1737."
Time
"Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them."
Marriage
"What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion!"
Fans
"In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style."
Idea
"Live always in the best company when you read."
Company
"To business that we love we rise bedtime, and go to't with delight."
Business
"I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury."
Illusion
"Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones."
Solitude
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