Courage

The amount of people who seem to live as if cowardice were heavily rewarded really make me think that simply being brave has a greater effect on life outcomes than intelligence, conscientiousness, beauty, etc.

To ask, every day, "What matters, in the end?" is to create the possibility of differentiated choice, the potential to overthrow the tyranny of our history, so as to honour something in us that has always been there, waiting for our courage.

— James Hollis

the people who can start things will be the major beneficiaries in the coming years. because the barrier is no longer knowledge or skills, it’s courage.

Courage Paradox.

The greatest minds are not products of thinking, but miracles in feeling. The heart is the bridge between the animal and the divine. Man’s heart is the intersectional ‘core’. Courage gets man out of his head and loins, so his heart can do the greatest thinking.

“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”

― Rainer Maria Rilke

Steven Pressfield on determination:

"I’ve seen a million writers with talent. It means nothing. You need guts, you need stick-to-it-iveness. It’s work, you gotta work, do the freakin’ work. That’s why you’re gonna make it, son. You work. No one can take that away from you."