Quotes About Courage

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.

Vivir es una forma de no estar seguro, de no saber lo que vendrá después ni en qué forma. En el momento en que sepamos cómo, empezaremos a morir un poco. Los artistas nunca sabemos nada del todo. Suponemos. Podemos estar equivocados, pero aun así nos lanzamos de un salto a la oscuridad una y otra vez. AGNES DE MILLE

Fear can make you start asking a lot of questions. If it doesn't get you down, it's going to start you wondering, "What's this fear? Where did it come from? What am I scared of?" Maybe you're scared of the most exciting things you have yet to learn. Impermanence is a great reminder.

El miedo es una reacción natural al acercarse a la verdad.

If we're willing to give up hope that insecurity and pain can be exterminated, then we can have the courage to relax with the groundlessness of our situation.

The waves just keep coming and knocking you down, but you stand up again and with some sense of rousing yourself, standing up.

push off into the middle of the river, keep our eyes open, and our heads above the water.

It's not a terrible thing that we feel fear when faced with the unknown. It is part of being alive, something we all share. We react against the possibility of loneliness, of death, of not having anything to hold on to. Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth.

So have a good journey home, and always remember—never give up!

Taking the leap involves making a commitment to ourselves and to the earth itself—making a commitment to let go of old grudges, to not avoid people and situations and emotions that make us feel uneasy, to not cling to our fears

Begin the journey without hope of getting ground under your feet. Begin with hopelessness.

Al principio de nuestro matrimonio, mi esposo me dijo que yo era una de las personas más valientes que conocía. Cuando le pregunté por qué, me dijo que porque era una cobarde total, pero a pesar de todo seguía adelante y hacía las cosas.

THE OPPOSITE OF samsara is when all the walls fall down, when the cocoon completely disappears and we are totally open to whatever may happen, with no withdrawing, no centralizing into ourselves. That is what we aspire to, the warrior's journey.

Usually we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear.

Rudolph Bahro. He writes, "When an old culture is dying, the new culture is created by those people who are not afraid to be insecure.

Buddha nature, cleverly disguised as fear, kicks our ass into being receptive.

We should retain our anger in the face of injustice and not be shamed by that.

Fear not the anger of the wise to raise; Those best can bear reproof who merit praise.

In a false quarrel there is no true valor.

People say there are no atheists in foxholes. A lot of people think this is a good argument against atheism. Personally, I think it's a much better argument against foxholes.

How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed!

They say cowardice is infectious; but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener.

If size mattered, the elephant would be king of the jungle.