Never walk away from home ahead of your axe and sword. You can’t feel a battle in your bones or foresee a fight.

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"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

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"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