Quotes About Fearlessness

When her body first hit the net, all I registered was a gray blur. I pulled her across it and her hand was small, but warm, and then she stood before me, short and thin and plain and in all ways unremarkable- except that she had jumped first. The stiff had jumped first. Even I didn't jump first. Her eyes were so stern, so insistent. Beautiful.

Don't let not knowing what to do prevent you from doing anything at all

June has never looked more beautiful than she does now, unadorned and honest, vulnerable yet invincible.

There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.

The Brazilian poet Vinicius de Moraes wrote that beauty is fundamental. Well, with the poet's permission, so is courage.

Perhaps the best way to write is to do so as if one were already dead, afraid of no one's reactions, answerable to no one's views.

Never be afraid to make a fool of yourself. The furthest out you can go is the best place to be.

I was the first f****** hippy to enter this business, you know... I was one of the first girls to say I don't give a f*** about this whole supermodel thing.

The only business of the historian is to relate things exactly as they are: this he can never do as long as he is afraid

Be bold in pursuing what others believe is unrealistic because this will achieve more than being bland and unimaginative.

An innovative mind is never once bitten, twice shy.

I'm always like, "Maybe I can drive the car. I can still fly the plane!"

Don't be hard on yourself. And take as many chances, risks, as you can.

Dare to take chances, lest you leave your talent buried in the ground.

It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.

When you open yourself to the continually changing, impermanent, dynamic nature of your own being and of reality, you increase your capacity to love and care about other people and your capacity to not be afraid.

Tonglen (sending-and-taking) practice also helps cultivate fearlessness. When you do this practice for some time, you begin to realize that fear has to do with wanting to protect your heart: you feel that something is going to harm your heart, and therefore you protect it.

THE only reason that we don't open our hearts and minds to other people is that they trigger confusion in us that we don't feel brave enough or sane enough to deal with. To the degree that we look clearly and compassionately at ourselves, we feel confident and fearless about looking into someone else's eyes.

By learning to relax with groundlessness, we gradually connect with the mind that knows no fear.

El camino espiritual implica ir más allá de la esperanza y del miedo, entrar en territorio desconocido, avanzar continuamente.

As long as we believe that there is something that will permanently satisfy our hunger for security, suffering is inevitable. The truth is that things are always in transition. "Nothing to hold on to" is the root of happiness. If we allow ourselves to rest here, we find that it is a tender, nonaggressive, open-ended state of affairs. This is where the path of fearlessness lies.

Tonglen practice has to do with cultivating fearlessness. When you do this practice for some time, you experience your heart as more open.

Wat ik het meest in mensen waardeer is de enige deugd die ze met goden en dieren gemeen hebben, en die je daarom eigenlijk geen deugd kunt noemen. Ik heb het over moed.

There's nothing in the sea this fish would fear. Other fish run from bigger things. That's their instinct. But this fish doesn't run from anything. He doesn't fear.