"Follow your heart but take your brain with you."
"Courage is not an ability one either possess or lacks. Courage is the willingness to engage in a risk-taking behavior regardless of whether the consequences are unknown or possibly adverse. We are capable of courageous behavior provided we are willing to engage in it. Given that life offers few guarantees, all living requires risk-taking."
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Source: What Life Should Mean to You. Book by Alfred Adler (p. 14), 1937.
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