Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn’t they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines… There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.
The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.
What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.
You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
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