Adventure comes with no guarantees or promises. Risk and reward are conjoined twins—and that’s why my favorite piece of advice needs translation but no disclaimers: Fortes fortuna juvat. ‘Fortune favors the brave,’ the ancient Roman dramatist Terrence declared. In other words, there are many good reasons not to toss your life up in the air and see how it lands. Just don’t let fear be one of them.
Mary SouthTags: fearlessness
Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habits; thought is anarchic and lawless, indifferent to authority, careless of the well-tried wisdom of the ages. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid ... Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.
Bertrand RussellTags: intelligence strength freedom courage thought freedom-of-thought independence fearlessness defiance free-thinker
What would you do if you weren't afraid?
Spencer JohnsonTags: fearlessness
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Alexander PopeTags: caution angels fearlessness fools delicacy indiscretion
Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers,
but to be fearless in facing them.
Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but
for the heart to conquer it.
Tags: pain danger perseverance fearlessness
Let everything happen to you
Beauty and terror
Just keep going
No feeling is final
Tags: live-in-the-moment fearlessness enjoy-life
Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.
Mahatma GandhiTags: morality bravery fearlessness
Nothing is more terrifying than fearlessness.
Cornelia FunkeTags: fear fearlessness
Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTags: honesty fearlessness speaking-your-mind
By the Angel," Jace said, looking the demon up and down. "I knew Greater Demons were meant to be ugly, but no one ever warned me about the smell."
Abbadon opened its mouth and hissed. Inside its mouth were two rows of jagged glass-sharp teeth.
"I'm not sure about this wind and howling darkness business," Jace went on, "smells more like landfill to me. You sure you're not from Staten Island?
Tags: humor demon sarcasm fearlessness jace-wayland teasing bravado taunting
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