The opposite of a coward is one who knows and does the right thing at the right time even if it may cost them their own life.
Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.
Risk is the clue that our dreams are both real and great.
I need to stop running back to you in my mind all the time.
A bird that fears turbulence will never know how high it can fly.
The restless adventurer within me stands eye-to-eye with the fear that has stepped directly in my path. And the thing I absolutely must not do is to blink first.
The louder the dogs bark the less a lion feels threatened.
Self-pity is spiritual suicide. It is an indefensible self-mutilation of the soul.
A step towards what you fear is a mile towards mastering it.
When dark situations arise, it is opportunity for you to reveal the leader in you. Rise and deal with them.
We read the pagan sacred books with profit and delight. With myth and fable we are ever charmed, and find a pleasure in the endless repetition of the beautiful, poetic, and absurd. We find, in all the...