Nelson Mandela

We ask ourselves,
“Who am I to be brilliant, or fabulously talented?”

Actually,
how dare you not?

Your playing small doesn’t serve the world.
There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking
so that other people won’t feel insecure around you.

We are all meant to shine as children do.
We were born to manifest the wonderment of the gift that is within us.
It’s not just in some of us, it’s in everyone.

And as we let our light shine,
we unconsciously give other people the permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our fear,
our presence liberates others.

– Marianne Williamson (quoting Nelson Mandela)

I learned that
courage was not the absence of fear,
but the triumph over it.

The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid,
but he who conquers that fear.

– Nelson Mandela