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Avoidance will make you feel less vulnerable in the short run, but it will never make you less afraid.
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How relationships unfold with the most important people in our lives depends on courage and clarity in finding voice. This is equally true for our relationship with our self.
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Resolve to do the things you find to be difficult. That’s what confident people do. They tackle those things that are scary and they get addicted to doing it.
It is not fear that stops you from doing the brave and true thing in your daily life. Rather, the problem is avoidance. You want to feel comfortable so you avoid doing or saying the thing that will evoke fear and other difficult emotions.
Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.
If you love deeply, you’re going to get hurt badly. But it’s still worth it.
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The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
No matter how simplified or complicated life gets, it can make us miserable or it can wake us up.
Empathetic listening is an awesome medication for the hurting heart.