21st Century Courage
- Everyone and anyone can dance, because dancing is not only about performing. Dance is not even about being together, you can dance alone. Dance is not about dancing to music, you can dance in silence. So of course everybody can dance — and not only can, should .
from Ohad Naharin - The Talks by Emma Robertson
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“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
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- "but we also have the advantage of … we don’t have to be full of shit. We’re not actually a surveillance company. I’m not trying to pretend Facebook is good. I don’t have to toe a party line that is divorced from reality. And we aren’t Big Tech." (Andrew Deck, Signal President Meredith Whittaker on Resisting Government Threats to Privacy)
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- “Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and being alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You have to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or... See more
from No Part Of Yourself Is Unworthy.
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"Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them. In this formulation, I do not imply, for instance, that we sho
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“There is a Hebrew prayer that dates back to the early 1800s: the world is a
narrow bridge, and the important thing is not to be afraid." From courage is calling by Ryan Holiday
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"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
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“He was coming in hard and low: a squat missile. I got to my feet and watched him come. I didn't try to run. I was transfixed.
It had been thirty-three and a half years since the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's notorious death order against me and all those involved in the publication of The Satanic Verses, and during those years, I confess, I had som
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"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Tim Ferriss from Tribe of Mentors
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