It is an error to divide people into the living and the dead: there are people who are dead-alive, and people who are alive-alive. The dead-alive also write, walk, speak, act. But they make no mistakes; only machines make no mistakes, and they produce only dead things. The alive-alive are constantly in error, in search, in questions, in torment.

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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to lead.

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The scariest moment is always just before you start.

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Courage comes in different forms. There's strength--that's the muscle. But love's the heart. When you put them together, you can do anything.

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In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance. ― Joseph Stalin

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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful. — Mark Victor Hansen

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Keep Writing, Keep Living, Keep Loving ― Frank Ocean

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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. – e. e. cummings

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To create one’s own world takes courage. – Georgia O’Keeffe

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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. — E.E. Cummings

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