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Courage is grace under pressure.
It takes courage to push yourself to places you have never been before... to test yout limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to stay tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossum.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I'd always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it is always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals come easily.
All the Pretty Horses
Just understanding life as it is, and living it with courage; not escaping from it, not hiding from it, facing it with courage, whatsoever it is, good or bad, divine or evil, heaven or hell.
Absolute Tao: Subtle is the way to love, happiness and truth
They say: Think twice before you jump. I say: Jump first and then think as much as you want!
Courage: The Joy of Living Dangerously
Every man of courage is a man of his word
Brave men are brave from the very first
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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