Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures.
The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
- Lao Tzu

Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.
- Epictetus

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Anais Nin

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White

Freedom from desire leads to inner peace.
- Lao-Tzu

When you are sorrowful, look again in your heart,
and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
- Khalil Gibran

God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
Courage to change the things I can;
And wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile,
but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
- Thich Nhat Hanh

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
- Joseph Campbell