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Courage is inseparable from love and leads to what may arguably be the noblest of all warrior virtues: selflessness.
Steven Pressfield
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Steven Pressfield
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 1
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What force is yanking at our sleeves? This process of self-revision and self-correction is so common we don't even notice. But it's a miracle.
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Fear doesn't go away. The warrior and the artist live by the same code of necessity, which dictates that the battle must be fought anew every day.
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The amateur tweets. The pro works.
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We show up. We do our best. Good things happen.
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No matter how great a writer, artist, or entrepreneur, he is a mortal, he is fallible. He is not proof against Resistance. He will drop the ball he will crash. That’s why they call it rewriting.
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