#oura

Fear is a fire to temper courage and resolve. Use it so. ↗

— Terry Brooks

#memorable #courage

Love is like life with or without justice, with or without fairness. ↗

— Fadi Hattendorf

#fairness #inspirational #justice #life #love

I was encouraged to hear that GM has made great progress on the hydrogen car. ↗

— Albert Wynn

#encouraged #gm #great #great progress #hear

Fear is the lack of faith in one's ability to create powerful solutions. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#courage #faith #fear #hinderances #lack-of-faith

One should always seek out opportunity, not security. The desire for opportunity comes from courage, whereas the desire for security comes from fear. ↗

— Lisa Taylor

#fear #inspirational #opportunity #courage

How hard it is, to be forced to the conclusion that people should be, nine tenths of the time, left alone! - When there is that in me that longs for absolute commitment. One of the poem-ideas I had was that one could respect only the people who knew that cups had to be washed up and put away after drinking, and knew that a Monday of work follows a Sunday in the water meadows, and that old age with its distorting-mirror memories follows youth and its raw pleasures, but that it's quite impossible to love such people, for what we want in love is release from our beliefs, not confirmation in them. That is where the 'courage of love' comes in - to have the courage to commit yourself to something you don't believe, because it is what - for the moment, anyway - thrills your by its audacity. (Some of the phrasing of this is odd, but it would make a good poem if it had any words...) ↗

— Philip Larkin

#love #poetry #youth #age

But courage was growing in me too. Little by little it was getting harder and harder for me not to speak out. ↗

— Anne Moody

#courage #mississippi-authors #age

...it’s just another one of those things I don’t understand: everyone impresses upon you how unique you are, encouraging you to cultivate your individuality while at the same time trying to squish you and everyone else into the same ridiculous mould. It’s an artist’s right to rebel against the world’s stupidity. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#artists #be-yourself #creative-process #encouragement #funny

Reading about the response of people in stories, plays, poems, helps us to respond more courageously and openly at our own moments of turning. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#brave #courage #faith #where-faith-meets-art #art

What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be altered. The knowledge that we are responsible for our actions and attitudes does not need to be discouraging, because it also means that we are free to change this destiny. One is not in bondage to the past, which has shaped our feelings, to race, inheritance, background. All this can be altered if we have the courage to examine how it formed us. We can alter the chemistry provided we have the courage to dissect the elements. ↗

— Anaïs Nin

#courage #destiny #empowerment #responsibility #self-control