Your playing small does not serve the world. Who are you not to be great?

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.

I will shrink myself no longer to make any human feel secure

Minimizar seus talentos não ajuda o mundo. Não há nada de iluminado em se diminuir para que os outros não se sintam inseguros ao seu redor.

In spite of what is studied in business schools concerning “economies of scale,” size hurts you at times of stress; it is not a good idea to be large during difficult times.

The bigger you are, the smaller your world becomes.

Jack, the world is full of people who can only feel big by making other people look small, and the bigger the target, the better they feel about it.

if a man would make his world large, he must be always making himself small.

Most people think small because they are afraid of success, afraid of making decisions, afraid of winning.

Anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for you.

The more doors you open to the mysteries, or sacred knowledge, the smaller you feel. And because you begin to feel smaller and smaller until your ego disappears, the more humble you become. Therefore, any man who behaves arrogantly with what little he knows, or claims to know all, only reveals to all that he really knows nothing. Real greatness does not reside inside those who feel large. The truly wise are meek. Yet being small and meek do not make one weak. Arming oneself with true knowledge generates strong confidence and a bold spirit that makes you a lion of God. The Creator does not want you to suffer, yet we are being conditioned by society to accept suffering, weak and passive dispositions under the belief that such conditions are favorable by God. Weakness is not a virtue praised by God. How could he desire for you to be weak if he tells us to stand by our conscience? Doing so requires strength. However, there is a difference between arrogance when inflating your ego, and confidence when one truly gets closer to God. One feels large, while the other feels small. Why? Because a man of wisdom understands that he is just a small pea in a sea of infinite atoms, and that in the end — we are all connected. And did you not know that the smaller a creature is, the bolder its spirit?

Life is too short to be small. — BENJAMIN DISRAELI

Life Is Too Short to be Small

Il nostro giocare in piccolo non serve al mondo.