#oura

God surely did not create us, and cause us to live, with the sole end of wishing always to die. I believe, in my heart, we were intended to prize life and enjoy it, so long as we retain it. Existence never was originally meant to be that useless, blank, pale, slow-trailing thing it often becomes to many, and is becoming to me, among the rest. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#courage

I want to go on living even after my death! And therefore I am grateful to God for this gift, this possibility of developing myself and of writing, of expressing all that is in me. I can shake off everything if I write; my sorrows disappear; my courage is reborn. But, and that is the great question, will I ever be able to write anything great, will I ever become a journalist or a writer? ↗

— Anne Frank

#courage

He was certainly in a confused state. I used to go and visit him in Callan Park. They were really - to me they were the best poets those two writing in those days but it wasn't very encouraging because, well, they weren't getting far were they? ↗

— Robert Adamson

#best #certainly #confused #days #encouraging

To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#conquer #courage #happy #incessantly #live

All sport... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win is not only permissible, but encouraged. ↗

— Spiro T. Agnew

#along #avenues #clear #desire #encouraged

I have always been one to encourage perseverance. ↗

— Christina Aguilera

#been #encourage #i #perseverance

Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. ↗

— James Allen

#courage #greatest #honor #man #mind

Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die. ↗

— Vittorio Alfieri

#courage #die #live #rather #test

Earth teach me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life. Earth teach me resignation as the leaves which die in the fall. Earth teach me courage as the tree which stands all alone. Earth teach me regeneration as the seed which rises in the spring. ↗

— William Alexander

#courage #die #earth #fall #forget

At the same time, I would add that the American people have a lot of courage. ↗

— Tadao Ando

#american #american people #courage #i #lot