This Is Calling You
by Daily Stoic
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You were not made to sit on the couch. You were not made for idleness. You were made for adventure, for daring deeds. Fortune favors the bold, went the ancient saying. Life is short. Seize it. Be brave.
Courage is calling. Will you answer?
The great Thomas Wentworth Higginson, translator of Epictetus, abolitionist and leader of black troops in the American Civil War, explained that "Life is sweet, but it would not be sweet enough without the occasional relish of peril and the luxury of daring deeds. Perhaps every man sometimes feels this longing…when he would fain leave politics and personalities, even endearments and success behind, and would exchange the best year of his life for one hour at Balaklava with the 'Six Hundred.'"
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