#oura

You want to live? Yes! Then quit thinking you're gonna die! ↗

— Laurel Dewey

#life #strength #strength-through-adversity #courage

That paper-- it sits there, open at the employment section. It sits there like a war, and each small advertisement is another trench for a person to dive into. To hope and fight in. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#fight #life #struggle #unemployment #courage

If you have decided to sail to the sea with great courage and determination, even the storm on the horizon will step aside! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#courage

A man without courage is a boat in a frozen lake! Get rid of your fears! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#courage

our demons lose their power when we pull them out of the depths where they hide and look them in the face in broad daylight. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#inspiration #life #inspirational

Expect while reaching for the stars, people to whirl by with their dark clouds and storm upon you. ↗

— Anthony Liccione

#dark-clouds #discourage #haters #jealousy #negative-people

Play to your strengths.” “I haven’t got any,” said Harry, before he could stop himself. “Excuse me,” growled Moody, “you’ve got strengths if I say you’ve got them. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#education #encouragement #exhortation #prophecy #education

I wouldn't sing any of this if I didn't think it might help someone. Especially girls. It's so hard for girls - pressure to like this band or that band, dress like this but not like that - do whatever will make you blend into the wall. But girls are so passionate inside, waiting for an outlet - and that's what I try to encourage: be who you are, take control of your life. ↗

— Lacey Mosley

#encouragement #flyleaf #girls #hard #help

Our weapons are the ironic mind against the literal: the open mind against the credulous; the courageous pursuit of truth against the fearful and abject forces who would set limits to investigation (and who stupidly claim that we already have all the truth we need). Perhaps above all, we affirm life over the cults of death and human sacrifice and are afraid, not of inevitable death, but rather of a human life that is cramped and distorted by the pathetic need to offer mindless adulation, or the dismal belief that the laws of nature respond to wailings and incantations. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#religion #courage

In life, we make the best decisions we can with the information we have on hand. ↗

— Agnes Kamara-umunna

#psychology #reconciliation #life