#ear

I am my own biggest critic. Before anyone else has criticized me, I have already criticized myself. But for the rest of my life, I am going to be with me and I don't want to spend my life with someone who is always critical. So I am going to stop being my own critic. It's high time that I accept all the great things about me. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#bravery #courage #critic #critical #criticism

It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance. ↗

— Amanda McBroom

#breaking #dance #heart #learns #never

Come to the edge.' 'We can't. We're afraid.' 'Come to the edge.' 'We can't. We will fall!' 'Come to the edge.' And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew. ↗

— Guillaume Apollinaire

#courage

This all comes down to what we know about life on Earth. ↗

— Margaret Turnbull

#comes #down #earth #know #life

We have nothing to fear but fear itself," Otto replied. "Oh, and a megalomaniacal headmaster, the world's deadliets assassin, giant mutated plant monsters, an international cartel of supervillains, and the security forces of every country on earth, but other than that...just fear. ↗

— Mark Walden

#fear #humor #courage

But think of how much worse it would be to sit here, not knowing. Until the Dead choke the Ratterlin and Hedge walks across the dry bed of the river to batter down the door. ↗

— Garth Nix

#fantasy #fear #courage

Yet though I must lose my life, fear shall never make me change colour. ↗

— W.A. Neilson

#courage #fear #change

‎"You shouldn't feel so bad about being afraid of so many things." "Why not?" "Because if you weren't afraid never ever, then you couldn't be brave never ever. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#bravery #courage #fear #heartwarming #inspiration

A man who is intimate with God is not intimidated by man. ↗

— Leonard Ravenhill

#faith #fear #intimidation #courage

We are, all of us, exploring a world none of us understands...searching for a more immediate, ecstatic, and penetrating mode of living...for the integrity, the courage to be whole, living in relation to one another in the full poetry of existence. The struggle for an integrated life existing in an atmosphere of communal trust and respect is one with desperately important political and social consequences...Fear is always with us, but we just don't have time for it. -Commencement Speech, Wellesley 1969 ↗

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

#future #inspiration #courage