Courage

“Follow your bliss.”

Joseph Campbell

The Power of Myth

“If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.”

Ram Dass

Be Here Now

“The gull sees farthest who flies highest.”

Richard Bach

Jonathan Livingston Seagull

“Feel the fear and do it anyway!”

Susan Jeffers

Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway

“Expansion in love is an action that is available to every being in the universe all the time. A willing awareness will take us to heaven, a loving attitude will make us free.”

Thaddeus Golas

The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment

“Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.”

W. Clement Stone

Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude

“The first step toward changing the world is to change our vision of the world and of our place in it.”

Arianna Huffington

On Becoming Fearless

“Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.”

Brené Brown

Daring Greatly

“There is no greater threat to the critics and cynics and fearmongers than those of us who are willing to fall because we have learned how to rise.”

Brené Brown

Rising Strong

“Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we'll ever do.”

Brené Brown

The Gifts of Imperfection

“When we truly recognize that our beliefs are that powerful, we hold the key to freedom.”

Bruce Lipton

The Biology of Belief

“Who would you be without your story?”

Byron Katie

Loving What Is

“Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.”

Deepak Chopra

The Path to Love

“Don't take anything personally.”

Don Miguel Ruiz

The Four Agreements

“Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves.”

Don Miguel Ruiz

The Four Agreements

“We can do hard things.”

Glennon Doyle

Untamed

“Every truth is a kindness, even if it makes others uncomfortable. Every untruth is an unkindness, even if it makes others comfortable.”

Glennon Doyle

Untamed

“The fastest way out of our fear is through it.”

Marie Forleo

Everything Is Figureoutable

“I forgive you and set you free. Your actions no longer have power over me.”

Michael Bernard Beckwith

Spiritual Liberation

“When our thoughts look real, we live in a world of suffering. When they look subjective, we live in a world of choice.”

Michael Neill

The Inside-Out Revolution

“Only you can take inner freedom away from yourself, or give it to yourself. Nobody else can.”

Michael Singer

The Untethered Soul

“Whatever you fear most has no power — it is your fear that has the power.”

Oprah Winfrey

What I Know For Sure

“Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible be found in us.”

Pema Chödrön

When Things Fall Apart

“To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.”

Pema Chödrön

When Things Fall Apart

“Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

Peace Is Every Step

“A person's success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have.”

Tim Ferriss

The 4-Hour Workweek

“Those who are not angry at the things they should be angry at are thought to be fools.”

Aristotle

Nicomachean Ethics, Book IV

“No man is free who is not master of himself.”

Epictetus

Discourses

“If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it.”

Marcus Aurelius

Meditations, Book 12.17

“Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open?”

Rumi

The Essential Rumi (Coleman Barks interpretation, not a literal translation)