#courage

Reading about the response of people in stories, plays, poems, helps us to respond more courageously and openly at our own moments of turning. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#brave #courage #faith #where-faith-meets-art #art

What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be altered. The knowledge that we are responsible for our actions and attitudes does not need to be discouraging, because it also means that we are free to change this destiny. One is not in bondage to the past, which has shaped our feelings, to race, inheritance, background. All this can be altered if we have the courage to examine how it formed us. We can alter the chemistry provided we have the courage to dissect the elements. ↗

— Anaïs Nin

#courage #destiny #empowerment #responsibility #self-control

We give up our power to the very people who took it away from us in the first place. ↗

— Patti Digh

#courage #encouragement #irony #power #change

I beseech Christ for this one thing only, that He will enable me to endure all things courageously, and that He break me as a potter’s vessel or make me strong, as it pleases Him. ↗

— Huldrych Zwingli

#courage

È bello anche morire per le proprie idee... chi ha il coraggio di sostenere i propri valori muore una volta sola, chi ha paura muore ogni giorno. ↗

— Paolo Borsellino

#courage #life #courage

Don't change your mind just because people are offended; change your mind if you're wrong. ↗

— Criss Jami

#argument #challenge #changing #changing-your-mind #controversial

Fairy tales were not my escape from reality as a child; rather, they were my reality -- for mine was a world in which good and evil were not abstract concepts, and like fairy-tale heroines, no magic would save me unless I had the wit and heart and courage to use it widely. ↗

— Terri Windling

#courage

you say you have no courage, but i see it in you. what you did, the burden you agreed to shoulder, took courage. for that, i honor you. ↗

— Khaled Hosseini

#inspirational #respect #courage

Gryffindor is the courageous one right? I mean, I’m here because I have the balls to tell adults when they’re douche bags, so yeah, Gryffindor. ↗

— Trish Cook

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Everybody in here, there’s gotta be something really messed up that happened to them because that’s the world we live in. It’s sick, it’s messed up. But until we recognize what’s sick and messed up about ourselves, things will never change around us. ↗

— Lacey Sturm

#flyleaf #improvement #inspirational #mosley #nicole