#bravery

That’s the paradox: the only time most people feel alive is when they’re suffering, when something overwhelms their ordinary, careful armour, and the naked child is flung out onto the world. That’s why the things that are worst to undergo are best to remember. But when that child gets buried away under their adaptive and protective shells—he becomes one of the walking dead, a monster. So when you realise you’ve gone a few weeks and haven’t felt that awful struggle of your childish self — struggling to lift itself out of its inadequacy and incompetence — you’ll know you’ve gone some weeks without meeting new challenge, and without growing, and that you’ve gone some weeks towards losing touch with yourself. The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn’t live boldly enough, that they didn’t invest enough heart, didn’t love enough. Nothing else really counts at all. ↗

— Ted Hughes

#love #paradox #suffering #love

Genuine bravery occurs when you least expect it, and when, in fact, you're quite oblivious of it.  Sometimes heroism happens when you press on; other times when you let go.  Once in a while, it happens when you do a little dance all your own. ↗

— Gerald Hausman

#heroism #heroism

To go against the grain is the secret of bravery. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#bravery #dejan-stojanovic #grain #literature #literature-quotes

You might just be the craziest person I've ever know, but you're also the bravest. - Marcus ↗

— J. Scott Savage

#bravery #courage #courageous #crazy #crazy-people

Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?' 'That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#courage #fear #courage

Without fear there cannot be courage. ↗

— Christopher Paolini

#courage #fear #inspirational #courage

Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believe it. Seek out the memories depression takes away and project them into the future. Be brave; be strong; take your pills. Exercise because it's good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds. Eat when food itself disgusts you. Reason with yourself when you have lost your reason. ↗

— Andrew Solomon

#bravery #courage #depression #eating #exercise

Before I knew you, I thought brave was not being afraid. You've taught me that bravery is being terrified and doing it anyway. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#courage #courage

We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it. ↗

— Ernesto Guevara

#carpe-diem #commitment #courage #here-and-now #indiviuality

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt. ↗

— Madonna

#love #courage