The idea that you have to be protected from any kind of uncomfortable emotion is what I absolutely do not subscribe to.

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"If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play."

- John Cleese

Teamwork

"He who laughs most, learns best."

- John Cleese

Learning

"A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people."

- John Cleese

Connection to Earth

"Laughter connects you with people. It’s almost impossible to maintain any kind of distance or any sense of social hierarchy when you’re just howling with laughter. Laughter is a force for democracy."

- John Cleese

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"If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?"

- John Cleese

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"The greatest strength lies in vulnerability."

- Beauty and the Beast

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"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."

- Mark Twain

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"I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me."

- Tracee Ellis Ross

Courage

"If your dreams don’t scare you, they’re not big enough."

- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

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"Courage, dear heart."

- C.S. Lewis

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