“Let your inner light shine and wake you up. Don't wait for a time when you're free of fear. Feel the fear and do it anyway.”— Gabby Bernstein, twitter.com
“Something might happen, but then again maybe nothing. I haven't opened it yet, so I don't know. You can't know until you open it.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“Sometimes you have to get in trouble--good trouble, necessary trouble--to make a way out of no way.”— John Lewis, twitter.com
“If you always know what you’re doing, you’re probably not taking risks.”— Ryan Pernofski, twitter.com
“If you can find joy in setting up the board, playing the game itself feels like flying. Prepare the way for your own joy. Fly.”— Lin-Manuel Miranda, twitter.com
“Today I learned that if you truly want to be remembered you *have to* take bold, often scary creative chances...often.”— Claude Kelly, twitter.com
“Punishing honest mistakes stifles creativity. I want people moving and shaking the earth and they’re going to make mistakes.”— Ross Perot, logomaker.com
“Dare to take chances, lest you leave your talent buried in the ground.”— Phil Knight, addicted2success.com
“The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.”— Phil Knight, inc.com
“When you push yourself to start it’s amazing how many happy accidents happen.”— Mel Robbins, twitter.com
“There's no shame in fear...what matters is how we face it.”— George R. R. Martin, Jon Snow, amazon.com
“Doing what scares you and overcoming it is one of the sweetest rewards in life.”— Cassey Ho, instagram.com
“I know I’m only feeling this way because I’m pushing hard to grow. Growth is not easy. In many instances it’s painful because you’re moving out of your comfort zone.”— Cassey Ho, instagram.com
“Patience is not about waiting, but how we act when things take longer than we expect.”— Paulo Coelho, twitter.com
“Anytime you’re gonna grow, you’re gonna lose something. You’re losing what you’re hanging on to to keep safe. You’re losing habits that you’re comfortable with; you’re losing familiarity.”— James Hillman, thesunmagazine.org
“I love you –I do –but I am afraid of making that love too important. Because you’re always going to leave me…We can’t deny it.”— David Levithan, amazon.com