Quotes About Courage

Will my life be miraculously free from pain, despair, grief, heartbreak, hardship, loneliness, depression? No. But do want to live? Yes. Yes. A thousand times yes.

There are a lot of idiots in your species. Lots and lots. You are not one of them. Hold your ground.

Bertrand Russell wrote that 'To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three-parts dead'. Maybe

She imagined, now, what it would be like to accept herself completely. Every mistake she had ever made. Every mark on her body. Every dream she hadn't reached or pain she had felt. Every lust or longing she had suppressed. She imagined accepting it all. The way she accepted nature.

Sometimes just to say you're truth out loud is enough to find others like you

I loved someone once. A woman. I loved her madly. Do you understand? We were together, in secret, for nearly twenty years. And we were told we couldn't talk about that love… because it was dangerous. It was dangerous to love […] There comes a time when the only way to start living is to tell the truth. To be who you really are, even if it is dangerous.

Get out of your comfort zone and into your discomfort zone. That's where real change begins.

Then he heard it. Out in the Wood, straight ahead and much closer than before: The beast.

Being a wiseass in a groupthink environment is like throwing an egg at a bulldozer.

Still nursing the unconquerable hope, Still clutching the inviolable shade, With a free, onward impulse brushing through, By night, the silverd branches of the glade.

Yet they, believe me, who await No gifts from Chance, have conquer'd Fate.

Still nursing the unconquerable hope,Still clutching the inviolable shade.

Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair.

Even in a revolutionary movement, most people are like sheep. They are naturally afraid, and like sheep, they have to be led.

As a group, United States Marines were world-class profanity users,

Take risks, succeed because of those risks:

I'm not afraid of anything and I will not fight.

Personal power is the ability to stand on your two feet with a wide smile amid a plethora of universal circumstances that are ready to crush you or devour you.

We must also cultivate courageous energy: the commitment to remain present with whatever arises to consciousness, without grasping or resisting anything that comes to the fore of the mind.

From suffering I have learned this: That whoever is sore wounded by love will never be made whole unless she embrace the very same love which wounded her. — Mechtild of Magdeburg

Who is this woman who took on the Emporer Barbarosa, comparing him to an infant and a madman, and threatened that God's sword would smite him? Who is this woman

Fling but a stone, the giant dies.

He whose head is in heaven need not fear to put his feet into the grave.

It is better to die in the field of honour than to live in the chains of slavery;