Quotes About Courage

real fearlessness is the product of tenderness. It comes from letting the world tickle your heart, your raw and beautiful heart. You are willing to open up, without resistance or shyness, and face the world

When you are filled with fear, anxiety, or other difficult emotions, the first thing you should always do is make friends with them.

Instead, allow yourself to become curious. Curiosity is actually a form of fearlessness, when you think about it. It takes courage to let go of your hopes and fears in order to truly take in the other person. Open up more and more space in your own mind and heart for your partner's answers. Your own judgments and responses, while vitally important, are not the point right now. Trust, really trust, that they will still be there when you need them. (They will.)

When I think my actions will benefit others and not just myself, I find courage where I thought I had none. Holding others in my heart brings an uplifted quality to my actions, and I feel that I am being wise.

brilliant life is not about being untouched by sorrow but has more to do with relaxing and allowing the world to touch you. It's way braver to open yourself to the world than to wall yourself off from it.

The bad news is, you're falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is, there is no ground. Chögyam Trungpa

The Buddhadharma is not, however, associated with the practice of being a candy-ass.

real fearlessness is the product of tenderness. It comes from letting the world tickle your heart, your raw and beautiful heart. You are willing to open up, without resistance or shyness, and face the world … If a person does not feel alone and sad, he cannot be a [spiritual] warrior at all…

I would rather be alone and a loud voice for action than be silent.

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Having people feel sorry for you wasn't the way to get along in this world.

I have prayed to God that he give me the strength to survive each day and to face those times in my life that will be extremely painful. I have put my total faith in God, and he will take care of me.

Imagine how free we would feel and what we could accomplish if we could live without fear.

Wasn't it heroic enough, just staying alive when life got this hard?

Maybe that's what love was -- walking willingly into the unknown for the sake of the other.

When others witness or comment on abusive behaviors, the little voice that the upscale abused wife once heard inside her and ignored or muffled becomes amplified. Slowly she starts to recognize that she must stop enduring the abuse. . . . each woman comes to grips with her situation at her own pace. However, talking to others is key to her growing capacity to recognize and label her experiences, reclaim herself, target important turning points, and ultimately leave her tormentor.

She was the living, breathing proof that the hard things in life didn't have to defeat you - or even define you.

The Han Chinese] gathered to oppose their Manchu overlords, shouting, "Keep your hair, even if you lose your head!

And who would be willing to travel through hundreds of miles of wilderness, risking capture, carrying a letter telling the French to retreat? A young Virginian volunteered. George Washington, only twenty-one years old... found a wilderness guide and a translator to accompany him and set off...

Never ask, never get," the dog replied. "Never try, never taste. Never taste, never enjoy.

Courage. Whatever the storm, we must remain invincible.

We're not born to be ruthless, we women. But that's what it takes to hit the hands on the gunwale with an oar until they let go.

Susan Wojciechowski