Quotes About Courage

Live and let love. Love and let go. Go live.

Beat the storm to feel the breeze !!

The surest way to open yourself to hurt is to love, and yet you love anyway,

He might take her life, but he could never take her will, nor break her pride. She was a daughter of Pecht kings; he was naught but a feckless

Starting over didn't have to be scary or painful if you looked at it for what it was—a clean slate, a chance to create something entirely different, a chance to discard all things that weren't in sync with personal philosophies. Hope. That's what it gave her most.

God grant me the serenity to not fuck the things I cannot stand, courage to fuck the things I can and wisdom to know the difference.

one focus for healing is to challenge your fears and, to the extent that they have held you back, gain more freedom in your activities.

There is something wonderfully bold and liberating about saying yes to our entire imperfect and messy life.

Perfection is not a prerequisite for anything but pain.

Don't turn away. Keep your gaze on the bandaged place. That's where the light enters you.

There's a mystic who says there's only one really good question, which is, 'What am I unwilling to feel?

Yet by running from what we fear, we feed the inner darkness.

How could we forget those ancient myths that stand at the beginning of all races—the myths about dragons that at the last moment are transformed into princesses. Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are only princesses waiting for us to act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.

to failure." Playing it safe requires that we avoid risky situations—which covers pretty much all of life.

I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself.

The instant we agree to feel fear or vulnerability, greed or agitation, we are holding our life with an unconditionally friendly heart.

This is the suffering of fear. Fear is part of being alive. Other people experience this too . . . I am not alone. May I be kind to myself . . . may I give myself the compassion I need.

the 'secret' of a spiritual life is the capacity to '...return to that which we have spent a lifetime hiding from, to rest in the bodily experience of the present moment -- if even it is a feeling of being humilated, of failing, of abandonment, of unfairness.' Through the sacred art of pausing, we develop the capacity to stop hiding, to stop running away from our experience.

We have to face the pain we have been running from. In fact, we need to learn to rest in it and let its searing power transform us. Charlotte Joko Beck

You can't possibly be afraid of trees.

Use it to remember you have only one life to live. Seek God, and a thousand adventures and dreams will pursue you. - Where Dandelions Bloom

The strength to go on must come from within, not without, or it crushes instead of building up the heart.

she and trouble knew each other rather intimately. No reason the end of the war would stop such a seemingly natural pairing, she supposed.' - Chapt 1, The Ghosts of Paris, Tara Moss

Galileo held the truths he had discovered to be of very great significance, but as soon as they endangered his life he recanted with the greatest of ease. He felt that whether the earth or the sun revolved around each other was not worth his life. He may also have felt that it was more important for him to live and work so that his students could spread the truth.