Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors the Brave (The Stoic Virtues Series)

By definition, each of us is original. Our DNA has never existed before on this planet. No one has ever had our unique set of experiences. Yet what do we do with this heritage? We push it away. We choose not to be ourselves. We choose to go along, to not raise any eyebrows.

They are not nearly as formidable as your mind makes you think.

No rule is perfect, but this one works: Our fears point us, like a self-indicting arrow, in the direction of the right thing to do. One part of us knows what we ought to do, but the other part reminds us of the inevitable consequences. Fear alerts us to danger, but also to opportunity. If it wasn’t scary, everyone would do it. If it was easy, there

We can’t forget that all the energy we spend fearing that we’ll make it worse is energy not spent making it better.

We were afraid because we didn’t know. We were vulnerable because we didn’t know. But now we do. And with awareness we can proceed.

Because there has never been a person who did something that mattered without pissing people off.

immediate, precognitive impressions of things: phantasiai. And they were not to be trusted.

Courage is risk. It is sacrifice . . . . . . commitment . . . perseverance . . . truth . . . determination.

“There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say,”