“Never walk away from home ahead of your axe and sword. You can’t feel a battle in your bones or foresee a fight.”
"It is fortunate to be favored with praise and popularity. It is dire luck to be dependent on the feelings of your fellow man."
- The Havamal
Awareness
"Go you must. No guest shall stay in one place for ever. Love will be lost if you sit too long at a friend’s fire."
- The Havamal
Relationships
"The unwise man is awake all night worries over and again. When morning rises he is restless still, his burden as before."
- The Havamal
Adversity
"Be your friend’s true friend. Return gift for gift. Repay laughter with laughter again but betrayal with treachery."
- The Havamal
Connection to Earth
"Wake early if you want another man’s life or land. No lamb for the lazy wolf. No battle’s won in bed."
- The Havamal
Ambition
"The greatest strength lies in vulnerability."
- Beauty and the Beast
Courage
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."
- Mark Twain
Courage
"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
Courage
"Courage, dear heart."
- C.S. Lewis
Courage