#cow

He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not escape. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#death #life #philosophy #suicide #death

I'm watching a dream I'll never wake up from. -Spike Speigel ↗

— Keiko Nobumoto

#dreams #life #spike-speigel #steven-blum #dreams

We may place blame, give reasons, and even have excuses; but in the end, it is an act of cowardice to not follow your dreams. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#blame #cowardice #dreams #excuses #follow-your-dreams

Those who stop chasing after their dreams because of what they're being told are cowards. ↗

— Jawe Querimit

#dreams #dreams

If a girl wants to grow up to be a cowgirl, she ought to be able to do it, or else this world ain't worth living in. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#dreams #dreams

The cattle crouched round them in soft shadowy clumps, placidly munching, and dreaming with wide-open eyes. The narrow zone of colour created by the firelight was like the planet Earth - a little freak of brightness in a universe of impenetrable shadows ↗

— Hope Mirrlees

#cows #dreaming #impenetrable-shadows #planet-earth #the-universe

.....I'm certain I asked for a cowboy one December past-- For I wanted the excitement of pioneers to last; I ached to sing with a fiddle, speak with a drawl and twang; I surely requested John Wayne to be part of my gang. Of course I dreamed of a cowboy in those Yuletides of yore-- For I wanted that ace, that corral fighter, that scout roar; I ached for the authentic frontier hero of the West; I surely requested the sacred battleground's finest. I did pray Santa'd give me a cowboy some time ago-- For I wanted a legend in denim wrangler for beau; I ached to be rounded up safely by my saddled knight; I surely requested I be prospected, mined, settled right... -----excerpted from the poem 'A Cowboy For Christmas' in the book FROM GUAM TO CROWN CITY CORONADO (THANKS TO HERMANN, MISSOURI): A JOURNEY IN POESY, by Mariecor Ruediger ↗

— Mariecor Ruediger

#mariecor-ruediger #missouri #dreams

It often occurs that pride and selfishness are muddled with strength and independence. They are neither equal nor similar; in fact, they are polar opposites. A coward may be so cowardly that he masks his weakness with some false personification of power. He is afraid to love and to be loved because love tends to strip bare all emotional barricades. Without love, strength and independence are prone to losing every bit of their worth; they become nothing more than a fearful, intimidated, empty tent lost somewhere in the desert of self. ↗

— Criss Jami

#barricade #coward #cowardice #desert #ego

Being a hater is a measurement of cowardice. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#hater #experience

If you go to your death rather than do everything you might to prevent what is happening, you are merely committing suicide and trying to make yourself feel better about it. That is the act of a coward. It is beneath contempt. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#death #harry-dresden #death