21st Century Courage

"Fear determines what is or isn't possible. If you think something is too scary, it's too scary for you. If you don't think you have any power... you don't. If you aren't the captain of your fate... then fate is the captain of you." - Ryan Holiday, Courage Is Calling

“Perfection of character: to live your last day, every day, without frenzy, or sloth, or pretense.” Marcus Aurelius

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Tim Ferriss from Tribe of Mentors

“… we can no longer afford to carry on in a prolonged era of polite reflection and ineffective resistance. An Era of Emergencies is bearing down on us." - Barry Lopez from embrace fearlessly the burning world

“Learn how to learn from those you disagree with, or even offend you.

See if you can find the truth in what they believe.” - Kevin Kelly

“Long-term, healthy patterns of social organization, among all social life-forms, it seemed to me, hinged on work that maintained the integrity of the community while at the same time granting autonomy to its individuals. What made a society beautiful was some combination of autonomy and deference that, together, minimized strife.” Barry Lopez from

“Don’t let the weight of fear weigh down the joy of curiosity.” Fear is really false evidence appearing real.” - Tim Ferriss

"Every moment, every circumstance, is another chance to experience things as they are, rather than as we wish or fear them to be." - Joan Sutherland

“The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” George Orwell from 1984

“I have always been interested in writing about happiness, in large part because it's extremely difficult to do. The French writer Henry de Montherlant famously said, "Le bonheur écrit à l'encre blanche sur des pages blanches." Happiness writes in white ink on white pages. In other words, you can't make it appear on the page. It's invisible. It doe