#avery

If the apperance doesn't scare you look out for the mind . If that doesn't nothing will . ↗

— Maria Bernardin

#bullying #courageous #mind-body-spirit #courage

Prophet,' he said, 'Your doctrines I do not know; therefore if I accepted them, I would do it out of fear like a coward and a base man. Are you anxious that your faith be professed by cowards and base people? ↗

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

#courage #faith #strength #strength-and-courage #strength-through-adversity

Are there any two words in all of the English language more closely twinned than courage and cowardice? I do not think there is a man alive who will not yearn to possess the former and dread to be accused of the latter. One is held to be the apogee of man's character, the other its nadir. An yet, to me the two sit side by side on the circle of life, removed from each other by the merest degree of arc. (MARCH - Chapter 11 - page 168) ↗

— Geraldine Brooks

#courage

Greater love hath no man then this, that a man lay down his life for his friends ↗

— The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

#courage #courage

In the nineteenth century, the central moral challenge was slavery. In the twentieth century, it was the battle against totalitarianism. We believe that in this century the paramount moral challenge will be the struggle for gender equality around the world. ↗

— Nicholas D. Kristof

#morality #slavery #women #equality

I had no idea what time it was, but I felt boneless and it would take an act of God to get me out of this bed. Or chocolate. ↗

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

#funny #j-lynn #jennifer-l-armentrout #wait-for-you #funny

The likelihood that your acts of resistance cannot stop the injustice does not exempt you from acting in what you sincerely and reflectively hold to be the best interests of your community. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#change #resistance #society #trial #change

The exhilaration of battle was agreeable to him, but the sight of the dead, with their clay faces, blank eyes, and stiff bodies, which, when not unnaturally shrunken, were unnaturally swollen, had always intolerably affected him. He felt toward them a kind of reasonless antipathy which was something more than the physical and spiritual repugnance common to us all. Doubtless this feeling was due to his unusually acute sensibilities - his keen sense of the beautiful, which these hideous things outraged. Whatever may have been the cause, he could not look upon a dead body without a loathing which had in it an element of reselltment. What others have respected as the dignity of death had to him no existence - was altogether unthinkable. Death was a thing to be hated. It was not picturesque, it had no tender and solemn side - a dismal thing, hideous in all its manifestations and suggestions. Lieutenant Byring was a braver man than anybody knew, for nobody knew his horror of that which he was ever ready to encounter. ("A Tough Tussle") ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#corpse #dead #death #fear #horror

Be afraid of nothing but be aware of everything. ↗

— Rajan Shrestha

#awareness #brave #bravery #humor #inspirational

It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#business #challenge #inspirational #motivation #strength