#eli

Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be. ↗

— George A. Sheehan

#believe #courage #determination #having #means

Most of the time it's not the Europeans who belittle us. What happens when we look at them is that we belittle ourselves. When we undertake the pilgrimage, it's not just to escape the tyranny at home but also to reach to the depths of our souls. The day arrives when the guilty must return to save those who could not find the courage to leave. ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

#identity #immigration #religion #courage

But, the true reason for the success of such new expositions [translated Eastern religious texts] is to be found where they are the most accommodating, least rigid, least severe, most vague, and ready to come to easy terms with the prejudices and weaknesses of the modern world. Let everyone have the courage to look deeply into himself and to see what it is that he really wants. ↗

— Julius Evola

#orientalism #religion #spirituality #tradition #courage

I put no stock in religion. By the word religion I have seen the lunacy of fanatics of every denomination be called the will of God. I've seen too much religion in the eyes of too many murderers. Holiness is in right action, and courage on behalf of those who cannot defend themselves, and goodness. What God desires is here [the head] and here [the heart] and what you decide to do every day will make you a good man...or not. ↗

— Hospitaller

#courage

For every one pupil who needs to be guarded from a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be awakened from the slumber of cold vulgarity ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#courage #ethics #honor #morality #religion

No longer will I doubt my abilities...I will give myself a chance. ↗

— Stephanie Lahart

#courage-to-be-oneself #inspirational #motivation #courage

If we want to set out on the aruous search for the truth, we must all summon up the courage to leave the lines along which we have thought until now and as the first step begin to doubt everything that we previously accepted as correct and true. Can we still afford to close our eyes and stop up our ears because new ideas are supposed to be heretical and absurd? ↗

— Erich von Däniken

#science #skepticism #courage

With courage and hope, we can conquer our fears and do what we once believed impossible. ↗

— Juliet Marillier

#conquer #courage #fears #hope #impossible

When in doubt, throw doubt out and have a little faith.... ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#courage #doubt #doubts #faith #mustard-seed

A subject to which few intellectuals ever give a thought is the right to be a vagrant, the freedom to wander. Yet vagrancy is a deliverance, and life on the open road is the essence of freedom. To have the courage to smash the chains with which modern life has weighted us (under the pretext that it was offering us more liberty), then to take up the symbolic stick and bundle and get out. ↗

— Isabelle Eberhardt

#traveling-alone #courage