Quotes About Courage

Gone was the reflexive need to see the worst in things. Before the tumors took her life, they gave her a few moments of grace.

There's a great expression in Twelve Step programs: Act as if. Act as if you're a writer. Sit down and begin. Act as if you might just create something beautiful, and by beautiful I mean something authentic and universal. Don't wait for anybody to tell you it's okay. Take that shimmer and show us our humanity. That's your job.

How can I tell her that her lists will not protect her?

One afternoon I opened an email from her that included a passage from the work of Pema Chodron, a Buddhist teacher and writer whom I had long admired. To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. To live fully is to be always in no-man's-land.

She numbs her feelings, because they are bigger than she is.

Let me fall if I must fall. The one I will become will catch me." —THE BAAL SHEM TOV

of the nest. To live fully is to be always in no-man's-land.

A writer afraid of her own subject- whatever it might be- is a frozen creature, trapped in the inessential. Diminished.

I've never heard of any community that failed because it lacked material resources. Communities fail because they lack imagination and spiritual contact and soul and a sense of others and staying power and courage to move together and to live together.

Vulnerability doesn't come after trust—it precedes it. Leaping into the unknown, when done alongside others, causes the solid ground of trust to materialize beneath our feet.

Feeling stupid is no fun. But being willing to be stupid—in other words, being willing to risk the emotional pain of making mistakes—is absolutely essential, because reaching, failing, and reaching again is the way your brain grows and forms new connections.

Wait on the Lord, and be of good cheer, and he shall strengthen thy heart; wait, I say, on the Lord.

la crainte du danger est dix mille fois plus effrayante que le danger lui-meme,et nous trouvons le poids de l'anxiete plus lourd de beaucoup que le mal que nous redoutans.

Strah od opasnosti je deset tisu?a puta snažniji nego sama opasnost kad se pojavi pred o?ima.

I recommend it to the Charity of all good People to look back, and reflect duly upon the Terrors of the Time; and whoever does so will see, that it is not an ordinary Strength that cou'd support it; it was not like appearing in the Head of an Army, or charging a Body of Horse in the Field; but it was charging Death itself on his pale Horse; to stay indeed was to die, and it could be esteemed nothing less.

fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself

dar oamenii nu se cunosc pe ei înÈ™iÈ™i pân? ce nu-s puÈ™i la încercare, iar curajul se dobândeÈ™te cu timpul È™i prin experien??.

He had in his army 44,000 old soldiers, every way answerable to what I have said of them before; and I shall only add, a better army, I believe, never was so soundly beaten.

El bote era en verdad mucho mayor que todas las canoas o piraguas hechas de troncos que yo viera en mi vida. Muchos hachazos me había costado por cierto, y ahora solo faltaba botarlo al agua; de haberlo conseguido hubiera yo emprendido a su bordo el más alocado e imposible viaje de que se tenga memoria alguna.

deixar-se abater pela desgraça é redobrar seu peso, e quem acha ela lhe custará a vida de fato há de morrer.

He knew as well the stories of generosity and courage and self-sacrifice: the clergy who encouraged and comforted all who came – including the outcast Catholics, Jews, and Dissenters; the doctors who tended the poor without fees; the officials working quickly to calm panic and stave off disaster; the watchmen, the deadcart drivers, the 'buryers' at the pits; the parents and children and servants and friends who encouraged, comforted, tended, worked, saved, and mourned.

Le traducteur de ce livre n'est point un traducteur, c'est tout bonnement un poète qui s'est pris de belle passion et de courage. Une des plus belles créations du génie anglais courait depuis un siècle par les rues avec des haillons sur le corps, de la boue sur la face et de la paille dans les cheveux;

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, And wisdom to know the difference.

Steve Jobs gave a heartfelt talk to a graduating class at Stanford University. His advice: "Don't let the voice of others' opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become."3