#oura

I don't care if secretly, you think we'll all be dead before the month ends. On the outside, I want to see you smiling. Do it in defiance if you have to. If the end does come, I want this group to meet that end smiling. ↗

— Brandon Sanderson

#p- #age

Anger is the prelude to courage. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#courage #anger

This is how hatred begins -- with a muffled laugh on a hot night and a knock on the door. ↗

— Teresa R. Funke

#courage #life #prejudice #war #anger

When something undesirable grows in my soul, I ask Gd to give me th courage to mercilessly pluck it out. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#courage

We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, “I am suffering,” than to say, “This landscape is ugly. ↗

— Simone Weil

#courage #honesty #inspiration #status-quo #truth

Here lies a she sun, and a he moon there; She gives the best light to his sphere; Or each is both, and all, and so They unto one another nothing owe; And yet they do, but are So just and rich in that coin which they pay, That neither would, nor needs forbear, nor stay; Neither desires to be spared nor to spare. They quickly pay their debt, and then Take no acquittances, but pay again; They pay, they give, they lend, and so let fall No such occasion to be liberal. More truth, more courage in these two do shine, Than all thy turtles have and sparrows, Valentine. ↗

— John Donne

#bridegroom #love #passion #sexuality #wedding

Seeing with your heart, speaking from your heart, wearing your heart on your sleeve, and sacrificing for your heart will transform you into an extravagant lover. Hard work? Absolutely. But when you're an old woman at the end of your life and you evaluate your time on earth, I believe that there is only one question- beyond that of your salvation- that will really matter: Did I love well? ↗

— Sharon A. Hersh

#courage

If, as has been postulated before, heroism happens when courage meets circumstance, what if the circumstances are mundane? ↗

— Brad Herzog

#heroes #heroism #courage

Creativity takes courage. ↗

— Henri Matisse

#creativity #takes

And while it takes courage to achieve greatness, it takes more courage to find fulfillment in being ordinary. For the joys that last have little relationship to achievement, to standing one step higher on the victory platform. What is the adventure in being ordinary? It is daring to love just for the pleasure of giving it away. It is venturing to give new life and to nurture it to maturity. It is working hard for the pure joy of being tired at the end of the day. It is caring and sharing and giving and loving… ↗

— Marilyn Thomsen

#courage