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"The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity."
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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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"Don't allow life to pass you by because you are afraid of [looking] stupid."
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"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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"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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"Proclaim now that you refuse to die without fully living!"
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"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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"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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"There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love."
Love
"Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others."
Faith
"There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself."
Act
"Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market."
Love
"The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man."
Nature
"The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have."
Want
"Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture."
Cultural
"Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought."
Thought
"Authority is not a quality one person "has," in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him."
Quality
"There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the guise of virtue."
Virtue
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