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Someone else can put a thought in your head. But an insight is something you have to earn on your own.

It's less about choosing an adventure and more about choosing a path with purpose.

As warriors, as humanitarians, they've taught me that without courage, compassion falters, and that without compassion, courage has no direction.

Fortune will play her hand. And when she stands between us and flourishing, all we can do is live our best life. One

Courage overcomes, but does not replace, fear. Joy overcomes, but does not replace, pain.

To work through pain is not to make it disappear, but to make it mean something different for us - to turn it into wisdom.

Yet the basic fact remains: we live in a world marked by violence, and if we want to protect others, we sometimes have to be willing to fight.

Whatever my limited knowledge, I tried to make up for it with energy.

I thought buying at the local market would be an excellent way to build positive relationships with the local villagers.

If we want to change something, we must begin with understanding. But if we want to love something, we must begin with acceptance.

Some people are made stronger by suffering. Others are defeated. The difference is resilience.

You don't have to know what perfect looks like, but you do have to know what better looks like.

When people have a shared commitment, differences and disagreements don't disappear, but they can be seen in a new light.

If you respected someone, then you had to ask something of them.

Are you going to let what someone might say prevent you from doing what you must do?

Teams that are moved by great purpose become tighter still when things are tough.

We should be, in part, beginners for our entire lives. Beginning anew refreshes the habit of learning.

What usually matters in your life is not the magical moment, but the quality of your daily practice.

If you're growing, you're likely failing. If you're not failing, you're likely not growing.

Education aims to change what you know. Training aims to change who you are.

Please, dear Lord, don't let me f*** up. - ALAN SHEPARD, first American in space, seconds before liftoff

The point is to read in a way that leads to better thinking, and to think in a way that leads to better living.

Seneca: Fate guides the willing but drags the unwilling.

Know this: anyone who does anything worthy, anything noble, anything meaningful, will have critics.

You can put off the life you want to live until you wake up to find that it's too late.

Virtue is not about what you deny yourself, but what you make of yourself.

We grow when we recover from the right pain in the right way.

To begin where you are, you have to be where you are. This

For many people in the Western world, freedom is limited not so much by what others do to us, but by what we cannot do for ourselves. Walker,

If you start with humility, you see every person as your teacher.

The excellent fail more often than the mediocre.

storytelling is not just a way to remember what happened; it's a way to understand what happened.

Would you love people the same if they could never die?

Just as any work can be made into a miserable bore, any vocation can be a source of joy

The fox knows many things . . . the hedgehog knows one big thing.

The best friends support us, challenge us, inspire us. And we do the same for them.

Arrogance is the armor worn by hollow men,

Resilience is cultivated not so that we can perform well in a single instance, but so that we can live a full and flourishing life.

Beware the person who seeks to lead and has not suffered, who claims responsibility on the grounds of a spotless record.

Often, your mentors are already in your life; you just haven't yet found a way to learn from them.

It was foolish to cast someone as a saint just because they had suffered.

As a leader, you have to have the humility to understand that your power is limited.

Energy, curiosity, and wonder are not products of age. They're byproducts of what we do.

The new has no special claim on the true.

Death is like the sun. It infuses every part of our lives, but it doesn't make sense to stare at it.

We learn who we are and where we come from, what is right and what is wrong, from hearing and telling stories - something

The world needs many more humanitarians than it needs warriors, but there can be none of the former without enough of the latter.

The work of reflection is something you have to do for yourself. No one else can make you wise.

It's not enough to fight for a better world; we also have to live lives worth fighting for.

Virtues that are not practiced die. Resilience that is not practiced weakens.

Magnanimity" means "greatness of soul,

Great calamity met with great spirit can create great strength.

We can only be well led by those who have learned well the habits of resilience.

Hall, you should have died. Do pushups for being alive." Greg Hall knocked out twenty happy pushups and yelled, "Hooyah for being alive.

Warriors are warriors not because of their strengh, but because of their ability strengh to good purpose

So let's accept what must be accepted, without letting our acceptance justify inaction. Don't

The best experts and the best mentors have flexible minds.

Savor the flashes of wonder that light your life,

Failure and pain and hardship have the meaning we choose to give them.

To move through pain to wisdom, through fear to courage, through suffering to strength, requires resilience.

I had been given the greatest gift an education could provide: I had a better idea of what it meant to live a good life

Don't do this for me - do this with me. A leader earns devotion by showing devotion.

Excellence is renewed through deliberate practice, day in and day out.

I can point you in a certain direction, maybe draw you a map and give you some ideas. I can't carry you where you need to go.

Clarity of purpose creates perspective.

In the midst of hardship and fear, suffering and difficulty, the person who's built the habit of focus harnesses tremendous power.

Five variables go into training or practice of any kind: frequency, intensity, duration, recovery, and reflection.

Wise people could sometimes be dumb.

Interahamwe and became a murderer. The stories they told were straightforward:

In order to train the spirit you had to train both mind and body,

Practice builds habits. Our habits are our character. When it comes to virtue, practice makes a very great difference - or rather, all the difference.

Accept that you are imperfect and always will be. Your quest is not to perfect yourself, but to better your imperfect self.

Insights come through practice. When we work at something, we come to see it differently.

Excuses are incompatible with excellence. The

Humility leads to an open mind and a forgiving heart.