#courage

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

He who is brave is free.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.

To find yourself, think for yourself.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Let death and exile, and all other things which appear terrible, be daily before your eyes, but chiefly death; and you will never entertain any abject thought.

If you desire philosophy, prepare yourself from the very first to be ridiculed and mocked by the multitude.

I must die. But must I die groaning? I must be imprisoned. But must I whine as well?

I must suffer exile. Can any man then hinder me from going with a smile, and a good courage, and at peace?

And if any task, whether agreeable or painful, be set before you, remember that the contest is now, the Olympic Games are now, and delay is no longer possible.

To see what is right and not do it is a lack of courage.

I love those who do not know how to live unless by going under, for they are the ones who cross over.

Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.

The charm of knowledge would be small if so much shame did not have to be overcome on the way to it.

Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it—all idealism is mendacity in the face of what is necessary—but love it.

For believe me, the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment is: to live dangerously!

How much truth does a spirit endure, how much truth does it dare? More and more that became for me the real measure of value.

Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.

Insecurity is the very condition of life. To resist it is to resist life itself.

The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.

If you have nothing at all to create, then perhaps you create yourself.

Find out what you fear most; that is where you will find your next growth.

To live what you think is good and not what other people think is good is the highest form of courage.

The highest, most decisive moments of life are often accompanied by fear.

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

The shadow is a tight passage, a narrow door, whose painful constriction no one is spared who goes down to the deep well.

Let us follow the argument wherever, like a wind, it may lead us.