What Maria Popova thinks about courage
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1 dated position, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Maria Popova has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsThe only thing more dangerous than wanting to save another person - a dangerous desire too often mistaken for love - is wanting to save yourself, to spare yourself the disappointment and heartbreak and loss inseparable from being a creature with hopes and longings constantly colliding with reality, with the indifference of time and chance, with the opposing hopes and longings of others.
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