Quotes About Courage

Thay encourages us to boldly reimagine an entirely new way of living and doing things, and to never be afraid to dream. And he reminds us, no matter what, to always work together, never alone.

You might say something like this: "Dear little child, I am your adult self. I would like to tell you that we are no longer a baby, helpless and vulnerable. We have strong hands and strong feet; we can very well defend ourselves. So there is no reason why we have to continue to be fearful anymore.

Continuing to work in a spirit of love and understanding required great courage.

In this world, few people look with the eyes of compassion, and so we are cruel and merciless toward each other. The weak are always oppressed by the strong. I still see that my reasoning that day was correct, for it arose from love and understanding. Love and understanding can ease the suffering of all beings. The truth is the truth, whether or not it is accepted by the majority. Therefore, I tell you children, it takes great courage to stand up for and protect what is right.

Mindfulness is the opposite of this tendency. We must invite these things up into our mind consciousness every day and tell them, "My dear, I'm not afraid of you. I'm not afraid of my fear.

So the second step in transformation is to create the intention to stay where we are, look deeply at our fear, and accept it.

We only really face up to ourselves when we are afraid.

La verdad es que, durante nuestra vida, sólo tuvimos siempre miedo.

But what else could we do but hope? that, after all, is human nature.

That hope never left us, and it sustained us in the years to come, despite the fact that we had no good reason to expect our situation to improve.

Which is better: to dare to look directly into the blinding present, no matter how painful, or to await the detachment of hindsight -- which, being less painful, is more objective?

Going After Cacciato

The Cost of Discipleship, his meditation on Jesus's Sermon on the Mount, disparaging the "cheap grace" of the majority of German Christians in favor of the "costly grace" that linked Christian belief to social courage.

Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

I won't be a slave to the past. I'll love where I choose.

I don't see why a maid should take a husband when she's bold enough to fight her own battles

Though not fearful of measurable dangers, she feared the unknown.

If ever tears and pleadings have served the weak to fight the strong, let them do so now!

Why should we faint, and fear to live alone, Since all alone, so Heaven has will'd, we die?

She dismissed the past – trod upon it and put it out, as one treads on a coal that is smouldering and dangerous.

Let there be truth at last,/ Even if despair.

She is a bold and passionate woman, fighting to earn respect as a farm owner and over the course of the novel she has to endure much suffering, which enhances her better qualities while diminishing some elements of her less admirable traits.

Gabriel Oak: It's time for you to fight your own battles... and win them too.

When a strong woman recklessly throws away her strength she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away