#age

Much more surprising things can happen to anyone who, when a disagreeable or discouraged thought comes into his mind, just has the sense to remember in time and push it out by putting in an agreeable, determinedly courageous one. Two things cannot be in one place. ↗

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

#courage

Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#enjoy-life #hope #perseverance #courage

Have you ever loved someone so much that when you drew a breath you knew it was his? ↗

— Barbara Boyer

#love #courage

Ray's voice echoes in my head from one of his many self-defense lectures. "It's the panic that's gonna kill you or get you seriously hurt, Annie. ↗

— E.L. James

#inspirational #panic #courage

Do not trouble about those who practice philosophy, whether they are good or bad; but examine the thing itself well and carefully. And if philosophy appears a bad thing to you, turn every man from it, not only your sons; but if it appears to you such as I think it to be, take courage, pursue it, and practice it, as the saying is, 'both you and your house. ↗

— Socrates

#socrates #courage

I lacked the courage to investigate the weaknesses of the wicked, because I discovered they are the same as the weaknesses of the saintly. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#weakness #courage

Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. (p. 35) ↗

— Rollo May

#saint #courage

swore. “Barabas said you might say that. I’m supposed to tell you this.” Ascanio cleared his throat and produced a remarkably accurate impression of Barabas’s tenor. “Courage, Your Majesty.” “I will kill him.” “The Beast Lord or Barabas?” “Both. ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#barabas #kate #courage

I jumped out the back of a bus because everyone told me I wouldn’t ↗

— Jennifer Lawrence

#life #courage

How can we expect fate to let a righteous cause prevail when there is hardly anyone who will give himself up undividedly to a righteous cause? ↗

— Sophie Scholl

#courage #courage