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"... true fearlessness is not the elimination of fear but the transcendence of fear, the movement through it and not against it."

"... risk requires a brace refusal to accept what is normal or expected and to venture into the soul. And to do this is to face tension or chaos without needing to suppress it."

"To begin adventures, we must travel, either through distance or through spirit, or most desirably, both."

"If it were the same telescope, you'd see that you were both gazing at each other. (Well, hello there! Fancy meeting you, of all people, in the middle of a telescope!) Of course, one pair of eyes would look smaller, the other larger, because that's how telescopes are made, but you are not a telescope."

"The fact is that many of the things that are presented to us as rules are really just the of-the-moment preferences of people who have had the opportunity to get their opinions published and whose opinions end up being reinforced and repeated down the ages as Truth."

"And yet you will find that when it happens to you, your heart won't listen to reason. Because for all the wisdom you will have accumulated up to that point, in all the years you have been alive, your heart is just a muscle like any other. Full of blood and veins, hungry for oxygen. Your heart doesn't think. Your heart is stupid. It doesn't consider the relativity of tragedy when it breaks."