#bravery

One day’s life of a lion is preferable to hundred years’ of a jackal ↗

— Tipu Sultan "Tiger of Mysore"

#courage #courage

Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver 5 minutes longer. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#heroes #bravery

Being brave is not as easy as it looks. ↗

— Simone Elkeles

#bravery

But often life asks much of you, and you either honor life by answering with all your heart, or you cower your way into your grave. ↗

— James Clemens

#cowardice #death #honour #death

In such a beast as this..." (he means the army)"...it was the collective power that went, collapsing like a long-exhausted animal, at once falling under its own weight as much as that of its enemy. It was a collective death and not a matter of bravery or even strength, and once it was down it was finished as a battle. ↗

— Paul Hoffman

#battle #beast #bravery #collaps #collective

My little donkey, if I hadn't shown up, your fate would have been sealed. Love has saved you. Is there anything else that could erase the innate fears of a donkey and send him to rescue you from certain death? No. That is the only one. With a call to arms, I, Ximen Donkey, charged down the ridge and headed straight for the wolf that was tailing my beloved. My hooves kicked up sand and dust as I raced down from my commanding position; no wolf, not even a tiger, could have avoided the spearhead aimed at it. It saw me too late to move out of the way, and I thudded into it, sending it head over heels. Then I turned around and said to my donkey, "Do not fear my dear, I am here! ↗

— Mo Yan

#chinese #life #love #death

I’ve learned a lot about love over these last months. And part of what I’ve learned is that you have to want someone for who they are, not who you want them to be. You have to love a real person, not some dream in your head. ↗

— Zoë Marriott

#hopelessness #love #lovers #romance #dreams

Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#heroism #faith

The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint them to the senses. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#creativity #inspirations #living #resilience #inspirational

I was perfectly calm and perfectly insane, perfectly prepared to accept what the moment had offered. Indifference of that magnitude is rare and because it can be achieved only by someone ready to let go of who he is, it demands respect. It inspires awe in those who gaze upon it. ↗

— Paul Auster

#fearlessness #insanity #nothing-to-lose #inspirational