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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

The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt, but in spite of doubt. (p. 21) ↗

— Rollo May

#conviction #doubt #courage

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#courage #fact #honest #knowledge #lifelong-learning

Asking's the easy bit. Then there's everything that comes after. ↗

— Cath Crowley

#courage

Do you think that Hemingway knew he was a writer at twenty years old? No, he did not. Or Fitzgerald, or Wolfe. This is a difficult concept to grasp. Hemingway didn't know he was Ernest Hemingway when he was a young man. Faulkner didn't know he was William Faulkner. But they had to take the first step. They had to call themselves writers. That is the first revolutionary act a writer has to make. It takes courage. But it's necessary ↗

— Pat Conroy

#courage

I have never killed anybody, it is true, but it is because I lacked the courage or the time, not because I lacked the desire ↗

— Eduardo Hughes Galeano

#desire #kill #time #truth #courage

Courage and grace is a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is the bullring. ↗

— Marlene Dietrich

#courage #grace #courage

What we know matters but who we are matters more. ↗

— Brené Brown

#identity #worth #courage

when I am feeling low all i have to do is watch my cats and my courage returns ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#courage #pets #poem #poetry #courage

Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre; remorse is the poison of life. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#errors #life #remorse #courage