Quotes About Bravery

I'm afraid of taking steps that are not on the map, but by taking those steps despite my fears, I have much more interesting life.

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Fear of suffering is worse than suffering itself.

I hate being judged all the time and having to hide my fear, my emotions, my vulnerabilities. You think I'm a brave, talented young woman, who is never intimidated by anything. Well, you're wrong. Everything intimidates me. I avoid glances, smiles, close contact.

But as far as true goodness was concerned, that didn't exist - not in the land of cowardly men.

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.

Mi corazón tiene miedo de sufrir -dijo el muchacho al Alquimista, una noche en que miraban al cielo sin luna. -Explícale que el miedo a sufrir es peor que el propio sufrimiento.

my heart is afraid that it will have to suffer

No one could make a choice without feeling afraid. That's was the law of life..and no one could escape.

There are two kinds of idiots - those who don't take action because they have receive a threat, and those who think they are taking action because they have issued a threat.

El amor no hace muchas preguntas, porque si empezamos a pensar empezamos a tener miedo. Es un miedo inexplicable, y no vale la pena intentar traducirlo en palabras. »Puede ser el miedo al desprecio, a no ser aceptada, a quebrar el encanto. Parece ridículo, pero es así. Por eso no se pregunta: se actúa. Como tú mismo has dicho tantas veces, se corren los riesgos.

You were not merely a person unjustly accused of espionage, but someone who dared to challenge certain customs. And for that you could not be forgiven. However

How many terrible moments for women begin with the words "so I opened the door"?

Fear alone makes man weak. If you are afraid, your hands tremble, your feet falter, and your brain cannot tell hands and feet what to do.

Let no man's heart fail because of Goliath. - David

Brave young American men climbed the rugged slopes of Korean mountains and fought in homesickness and desperate weariness for the sake of a people strange to them and for reasons they scarcely understood, even when they yielded up their lives. With such noble impulse and final sacrifice, let the past be forgot, except for what it teaches for the future.

The essence of bravery is being without self-deception.

Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts.

And that can never be a mistake--to fly instead of staying in the nest with all the poop and everything that's in there.

How do we work with our minds when we meet our match? Rather than indulge or reject our experience, we can somehow let the energy of the emotion, the quality of what we're feeling, pierce us to the heart. This is easier said than done, but it's a noble way to live. It's definitely the path of compassion—the path of cultivating human bravery and kindheartedness.

When we feel lonely, when we feel hopeless, what we want to do is to move to the right or the left. We don't want to sit and feel what we feel. We don't want to go through the detox. Yet the middle way encourages us to do just that. It encourages us to awaken the bravery that exists in everyone without exception, including you and me.

Rather than letting our negativity get the better of us, we could acknowledge that right now we feel like a piece of shit and not be squeamish about taking a good look. That's the compassionate thing to do. That's the brave thing to do. We could smell that piece of shit. We could feel it; what is its texture, color, and shape?

The experience of a sad and tender heart is what gives birth to fearlessness.

Usually we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear. When I was first married, my husband said I was one of the bravest people he knew. When I asked him why, he said because I was a complete coward but went ahead and did things anyhow.