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Related Topic(s): Bravery; Courage; Letting Go
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Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace;
The soul that knows it not knows no release
From little things.
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Amelia Earheart
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelia_Earheart ;
missing July 2, 1937, declared dead January 5, 1939) was a noted American aviation pioneer and author.[1][2] Earhart was the first woman to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross,[3] awarded for becoming the first aviatrix to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.[4] She set many other records,[2] wrote best-selling books about her flying experiences, and was instrumental in the formation of The Ninety-Nines, an organization for female pilots. |
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Related Topic(s): Call To Adventure; Change; Courage; Journey
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This first stage of the mythological journey--which we have designated the "call to adventure" --signifies that destiny has summoned the hero and transferred his spiritual center of gravity from within the pale of his society to a zone unknown.
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Joseph Campbell
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He was an American mythologist, writer and lecturer, best known for his work in comparative mythology and comparative religion. His work is vast, covering many aspects of the human experience. His philosophy is often summarized by his phrase: "Follow your bliss."[1] |
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Related Topic(s): Courage; Kindness
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As Charles Lamb says, there is nothing so nice as doing good by stealth and being found out by accident, so I now say it is even nicer to make heroic decisions and to be prevented "by circumstances beyond your control" from even trying to execute them.
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Related Topic(s): Action; Bravery; Courage; FEAR
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So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end... and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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Related Topic(s): Courage; Humility; Modesty
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Let us bear a high heart and a modest mind.
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Related Topic(s): 1968; 200 Meters; Courage; Making History; Spirit
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There is a sweetness in the spirit of God.
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| John Carlos |
John Wesley Carlos (born June 5, 1945 in Harlem, New York) is a Cuban American former track and field athlete and professional football player. He was the bronze-medal winner in the 200 meters at the 1968 Summer Olympics and his black power salute on the podium with Tommie Smith caused much political controversy. He went on to equal the world record in the 100 yard dash and beat the 200 meters world record (although the latter achievement was never ratified). After his track career, he enjoyed brief stints in the National Football League and Canadian Football League but retired due to injury.
He became involved with the United States Olympic Committee and helped to organize the 1984 Summer Olympics. Following this he became a track coach at Palm Springs High School. He was inducted into the USA Track and Field Hall of Fame in 2003.
And he co-authored the book "The John Carlos Story - The Sports Moment That Changed The World" - with Dave Zirin, first published in hardback by Haymarket Books in 2011.
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Related Topic(s): CREATING; Courage; Create; Creativity; Emotional Expression; Expression; Ideas
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If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself. Also you will have betrayed our community in failing to make your contribution to the whole.
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| Rollo May |
Rollo May (April 21, 1909 - October 22, 1994) was an American existential psychologist. He authored the influential book Love and Will during 1969. He is often associated with both humanistic psychology and existentialist philosophy. May was a close friend of the theologian Paul Tillich. His works include Love and Will and The Courage to Create, the latter title honoring Tillich's The Courage to Be.
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Related Topic(s): Courage; SELF
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In human beings, courage is necessary to make being and becoming possible. An assertion of the self, a commitment, is essential if the self is to have any reality.
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| Rollo May |
Rollo May (April 21, 1909 - October 22, 1994) was an American existential psychologist. He authored the influential book Love and Will during 1969. He is often associated with both humanistic psychology and existentialist philosophy. May was a close friend of the theologian Paul Tillich. His works include Love and Will and The Courage to Create, the latter title honoring Tillich's The Courage to Be.
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Related Topic(s): Action; Courage; Inaction; Leadership; Waiting; Whistleblowers-ing
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you can't wait around for someone else to act. I had been looking for leaders, but I realised that leadership is about being the first to act.
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| Edward Snowden |
Whistleblower who exposed massive spying on Americans by NSA |
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Related Topic(s): Courage; Cowardice; Strength
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Cowards always find a way not to doubt. Only strong have doubts
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Related Topic(s): Anxiety; Brain; Brave; Courage; FEAR; Heart; Panic
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In fear, the brain starves the heart of its bravest blood.
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| Rob Kall |
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Related Topic(s): Courage; Freedom; Happiness; Opportunity; Possibility; Responsibility
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Freedom, Happiness, Responsibility or tranquility can be frightening, intimidating, overwhelming or awful.
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| Rob Kall |
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Related Topic(s): Courage; Hope Hopefulness
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Hope is an energy, a metaphysical, spiritual resource we hold within us-- a small fire that keeps burning when it seems cold and dark around us, when things seem to be going wrong, when possibilities seem dim or non-existent. Hope keeps lighting us up inside, enabling us to see that our heart is still there.
You don 't need special resources to have hope. Hope will find them for you.
You don 't need courage to have hope. Hope will give you ...
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| Rob Kall |
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Related Topic(s): Compassion; Courage; FEELING; Letting Go; Relaxation
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Relaxation frees the heart.
Courage opens the heart.
Compassion fills the heart
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| Rob Kall |
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Related Topic(s): Age; Experience; Learning; Wisdom
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The evening of life brings its Lamp with it."
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Related Topic(s): Education; Experience
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Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
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| Oscar Wilde |
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 - 30 November 1900) was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his epigrams, plays and the tragedy of his imprisonment, followed by his early death.
Wilde's parents were successful Dublin intellectuals, and their son showed his intelligence early, becoming fluent in French and German. At university Wilde read Greats, and proved himself to be an outstanding classicist, first at Dublin, then at Oxford. However, he became known for his involvement in the rising philosophy of aestheticism (led by two of his tutors, Walter Pater and John Ruskin) though he also profoundly explored Roman Catholicism (and later converted on his deathbed). After university Wilde moved to London, into fashionable cultural and social circles. As a spokesman for aestheticism, he tried his hand at various literary activities; he published a book of poems, lectured America and Canada on the new "English Renaissance in Art" and then returned to London where he worked prolifically as a journalist. Known for his biting wit, flamboyant dress, and glittering conversation, Wilde had become one of the major personalities of his day.
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Related Topic(s): Courage; Experience
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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
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| Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 - April 27, 1882) was an American essayist, philosopher, and poet, best remembered for leading the Transcendentalist movement of the mid 19th century. His teachings directly influenced the growing New Thought movement of the mid 1800s. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society.
Emerson gradually moved away from the religious and social beliefs of his contemporaries, formulating and expressing the philosophy of Transcendentalism in his 1836 essay, Nature. As a result of this ground breaking work he gave a speech entitled The American Scholar in 1837, which Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. considered to be America's "Intellectual Declaration of Independence". Considered one of the great orators of the time, Emerson's enthusiasm and respect for his audience enraptured crowds. His support for abolitionism late in life created controversy, and at times he was subject to abuse from crowds while speaking on the topic. When asked to sum up his work, he said his central doctrine was "the infinitude of the private man."
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Related Topic(s): Bottom-up; Consciousness; Experience; Hierarchy
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There are as many strata at different levels of life as there are leaves in a book. Most men probably have lived in two or three. When on the higher levels we can remember the lower levels, but when on the lower we cannot remember the higher.
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Henry David Thoreau
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Henry David Thoreau (see name pronunciation; July 12, 1817 - May 6, 1862) was an American author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, and historian. A leading transcendentalist, Thoreau is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay Resistance to Civil Government (also known as Civil Disobedience), an argument for disobedience to an unjust state.
Thoreau's books, articles, essays, journals, and poetry total over 20 volumes. Among his lasting contributions are his writings on natural history and philosophy, where he anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history, two sources of modern-day environmentalism. His literary style interweaves close natural observation, personal experience, pointed rhetoric, symbolic meanings, and historical lore, while displaying a poetic sensibility, philosophical austerity, and "Yankee" love of practical detail. He was also deeply interested in the idea of survival in the face of hostile elements, historical change, and natural decay; at the same time he advocated abandoning waste and illusion in order to discover life's true essential needs.
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Related Topic(s): Alive; Experience; Positive Experiences
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Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners.
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| Edward Abbey |
Thoreau of the West, and John Muir and Sophocles, Red Cloud, Crazy Horse, and Rachel Carson, too.
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Related Topic(s): Awake; Awakening; Experience; Time
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We wake and find ourselves on a stair: there are stairs below us, which we seem to have ascended; there are stairs above us, many a one, which go upward and out of sight.
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| Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 - April 27, 1882) was an American essayist, philosopher, and poet, best remembered for leading the Transcendentalist movement of the mid 19th century. His teachings directly influenced the growing New Thought movement of the mid 1800s. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society.
Emerson gradually moved away from the religious and social beliefs of his contemporaries, formulating and expressing the philosophy of Transcendentalism in his 1836 essay, Nature. As a result of this ground breaking work he gave a speech entitled The American Scholar in 1837, which Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. considered to be America's "Intellectual Declaration of Independence". Considered one of the great orators of the time, Emerson's enthusiasm and respect for his audience enraptured crowds. His support for abolitionism late in life created controversy, and at times he was subject to abuse from crowds while speaking on the topic. When asked to sum up his work, he said his central doctrine was "the infinitude of the private man."
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