Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. Mark Twain, from here Moving forward into the unknown is terrifying. […]
Badass. One reason I’ve chosen not to spend too much time on examples of physical courage is that it’s been done many times. In the case of Ben Thompson’s Badass of the Week, it’s been done really well, for a very long time. Each week, as you might have guessed, the site features a diferrent […]
Motivational Speaker Josh Sundquist | Bestselling Author of Just Don’t Fall. Josh Sundquist has one leg–and he’s kicking butt. Take a look at his Photos page to see three amazing one-legged Halloween costumes. Oh–he’s also a skier. Not just a bunny-slope slow-on-the-greens skier, either; he’s a freakin’ Paralympic ski racer. He competed on the US […]
Pope Embraces Man with Rare Genetic Disease | Neurofibromatosis | LiveScience. Compassion requires courage, particularly at this level. The man the pope embraced and kissed on Wednesday suffers from Neurofibromatosis, a condition I’d never heard of before reading this article. In a word, he’s hideous, the sort of man most of us would be much […]
This article on the Smithsonian web site makes me think about courage. According to a new book by Richard A. Serrano, at least some of the men who claimed in the 1950s to be veterans of the Civil War…weren’t. Some of them were children, too young to go to war, when the shooting stopped. Others […]
ZEN PENCILS – 120. TERENCE McKENNA: Nature loves courage. There’s a great deal of truth to this. I’m no great believer in the Law of Attraction; simply wanting something, even believing in it to your toenails, isn’t sufficient to make it reality. You have to make the effort, work your ever-lovin’ tail off, prioritize what […]
Turning Point: 40-year-old cancer survivor prepares for special marathon – TwinCities.com. Cyndi Elias has courage. Take a look at her t-shirt as you’re reading this article. After everything she’s been through, she’s now taken on one of the toughest athletic challenges a human can do. This summer, she ran a 26.2-mile leg of the Million […]
A Carrot, An Egg and a Cup of Coffee. I’m a sucker for a good metaphor, and this one resonates with me. The carrot and the egg are both changed by adversity (the boiling water) without producing much change in their environments, but the coffee changes its environment even as the environment changes it. It’s […]