Courage is grace under pressure.
- Topic: Courage, Fear
- Location: Mexico, Playa Del Carmen
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.
If something is wrong, fix it now. But train yourself not to worry, worry fixes nothing!
It is none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.
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Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
Opportunities don’t often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.
To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.
Fear gives intelligence even to fools.
Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burned women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.
He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.
Revenge and retaliation always perpetuate the cycle of anger, fear and violence.
