#ace

As long as we know what it's about, then we can have the courage to go wherever we are asked to go, even if we fear that the road may take us through danger and pain. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#bravery #courage #danger #faith #fear

You have to learn the difference between a man’s looks, and how fine he shoots. They’ve never been one and the same. ↗

— Richard Puz

#fear #fighter #race #soldier #courage

And that’s the work of your generation. As long as more walls still stand...We’ll need more of you, young people, who imagine the world as it should be; who knock down walls; who knock down barriers; who imagine something different and have the courage to make it happen. The courage to bring communities together, to make even the small impossibilities a shining example of what is possible. ↗

— President Barack Obama

#change #courage #hope #peace #possibilities

Societies need self sacrificing ignorant crowd; Religions need fearful followers; Systems need obedient slaves; Corporate world needs compulsive consumers, and I NEED THE COURAGE TO RISE ABOVE THESE FOUR PARASITES. ↗

— Saurabh Sharma

#fear #inspiration #materialism #rat-race #socierty

Tell her that you love her hair, that you love her skin, her lips, because, in truth, you love them more than you love your own. ↗

— Junot Díaz

#dominican #latino #race #white-girl #dating

Then I will find you at a later date. For now,” he bent down on one knee and the very same Kin that teased me in every single possible way my entire life, kissed the back of my hand with intense blue eyes watching me the whole time. His eyes are two pools of a swirling emotional ocean leaving the one in the lifeboat gasping for air. WOW! If anyone asked me to predict this, I would have laughed in their face. ↗

— Cyndi Goodgame

#dating

If everyone could feel as I felt at that moment, dressed in my preppy sweater and McGregor coat and about to set out on a little journey with my Bambi-eyed girlfriend on Christmas Eve, all conflicts in the world would vanish. Mellow smiles would rule the earth. ↗

— Ryū Murakami

#happiness #joy #love #peace #relationship

We have better relationships with those who truly seek us rather than those sitting on the couch watching us move mountains trying to prove ourselves. ↗

— Criss Jami

#courtship #dating #friend #friends #friendship

Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#death

There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness and death. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#inner-peace #death