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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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Personal Development

"Better hazard once than always be in fear."
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Personal Development

"Only cowards leave words unspoken."
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Personal Development

"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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Personal Development

"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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Personal Development

"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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Personal Development

"Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it."
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Personal Development

"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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Personal Development

"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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"It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer."
Courage

"People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own."
Behavior

"Why does a person spend money on a stamp to spout bile at a stranger?"
Behavior

"This is what it means to be alone: everyone is connected to everyone else, their bodies are a bright liquid life flowing around you, sharing a single heart that drives them to move all together. If the shark comes they will all escape, and leave you to be eaten."
Loneliness

"It lasted just a moment, whatever that is. One held breath? An ant's afternoon? It was brief, I can promise that much, for although it's been many years now since my children ruled my life, a mother recalls the measure of the silences."
Motherhood

"Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side. Betrayal is a friend I have known a long time, a two-faced goddess looking forward and back with a clear, earnest suspicion of good fortune."
Betrayal

"Everyone should get dirt on his hands each day. Doctors, intellectuals. Politicians, most of all. How can we presume to uplift the life of the working man, if we don't respect his work?"
Labor

"Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history."
Legacy

"Move on. Walk forward into the light."
Renewal

"Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws."
Strength
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