#bra

The idea of a library full of books, the books full of knowledge, fills me with fear and love and courage and endless wonder. ↗

— Elizabeth McCracken

#libraries #courage

She was beginning to realize people could survive most things. Not because thy were brave or strong, but because there wasn't any choice. ↗

— Candice Proctor

#choices #courage #survival #courage

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

He who is a firstling is ever sacrificed. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#courage #courage

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

If you learn to really sit with loneliness and embrace it for the gift that it is…an opportunity to get to know YOU, to learn how strong you really are, to depend on no one but YOU for your happiness…you will realize that a little loneliness goes a LONG way in creating a richer, deeper, more vibrant and colorful YOU. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#aloneness #being-yourself #courage #embracing-who-you-are #faith-in-yourself

I don’t for a moment think I am any braver or better than anybody else. This is how I attempt to explain what gives me the strength to do what I do; when that thunderbolt of an idea first hit me and inspired me to row across oceans, it filled me with a sense of purpose so strong that it overcame my fears. Even when boredom, frustration, fatigue or despair threatened to overwhelm me, it was that powerful sense of purpose that kept me going. ↗

— Roz Savage

#courage #fatigue #inspiration #motivation #sense-of-purpose

Have you ever cheated on someone?" Whoa. Where did that come from? "Well?" Was this an interview to date her brother? Staring her straight in the eye so she would know I was being deadly serious, I replied more honestly than ever, trusting Ellie not to push me too much on the subject, "I never get close enough to anyone for that to be an issue. ↗

— Samantha Young

#joss #dating

A decision made during a moment of weakness can ruin your life.         To date, I had made three. ↗

— Melika Dannese Lux

#corcitura #danger #eric-bradburry #hindsight #hybrid-vampires