Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.

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"We are born of love; love is our mother."

- Rumi

Love

"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."

- Rumi

Self-awareness

"This love is the rose that blooms forever."

- Rumi

Love

"For the rose, though its petals be torn asunder, still smiles on, and it is never cast down."

- Rumi

Resilience

"A rose’s rarest essence lives in the thorn."

- Rumi

Resilience

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"You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute."

- Tina Fey

Taking Risks

"You cannot plow a field by turning it over in your mind. To begin, begin."

- Gordon B. Hinckley

Taking Risks

"Do not wait for the perfect time and place to enter, for you are already onstage."

Taking Risks

"If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more."

- Erica Jong

Taking Risks

"If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever."

- Thomas Aquinas

Taking Risks