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I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it. ↗

— Mark Twain

#inspirational #death

‎"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

Hope and courage and risk dwell inside of us on an uncharted island and if we learn to look for it and tap into it, our possibilities are endless. ↗

— Katie Kacvinsky

#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

If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#inspirational #moral-courage #public-opinion #religion #courage

There is a terrible hunger for love. We all experience that in our lives - the pain, the loneliness. We must have the courage to recognize it. The poor you may have right in your own family. Find them. Love them. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#courage

If I charge, follow me. If I retreat, kill me. If I die, revenge me. ↗

— United States Marine Corps

#courage #inspirational #marines #courage

Come to the edge. We might fall. Come to the edge. It's too high! COME TO THE EDGE! And they came And he pushed And they flew. ↗

— Christopher Logue

#inspiration #tattoo-fodder #courage

We should impart our courage and not our despair. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#courage

The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in. ↗