#oura

Courage did not come from the need to survive, or from a brute indifference inherited from someone else, but from a driving need for love which no obstacle in this world or the next world will break. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#courage

We have to show these men and women freedom by enslaving them, and show them courage by frightening them. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#enslavement #freedom #frighten #courage

The sea stood up before him, foaming, torn by lightning bolts, opening terrifying mouths that gobbled up the dense, hard black rains unleashed by the sky like hate. ↗

— Jean-François Beauchemin

#fear #lightning #nature-s-fury #sea #storm

As it happens, however, no one in my family recognizes the existence of an impossibility. (We’re not specially courageous, we’re just bullheaded as all get-out, and the whole lot of us as independent as a hog on ice. Every last one of us would argue with a wooden cigar-store Indian.) ↗

— Markham Shaw Pyle

#stubborn #courage

Surely one zoo in the world should have the courage to draw the ultimate conclusion about our ancestry? A cage with Homo Sapiens in all its varying forms, perhaps then we would understand ourselves better. The question of course is whether the other animals would approve of it. ↗

— Cees Nooteboom

#courage

Evil itself is a dictator, whether it’s dressed up like a pompous little man with a moustache, or a bunch of faceless terrorists, or a fundamentalist state. That’s what the devil is, you know. And it’s precious difficult to combat. Or rather, it’s not so much difficult, as demanding of great courage. Will, and wit. ↗

— Chico Kidd

#courage

Should one point out that from ancient times decline in courage has been considered the beginning of the end? ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#courage

I judge the world by my own lights and I come by my own hand. ↗

— Catherine Madsen

#self-determination #courage

You bound him to you with your courage and your tales. You hold him to you now. You captured a wild creature when you had no place you could keep him. ↗

— Juliet Marillier

#storytelling #courage

When you were in a room with Kurtis James, whether it was one or a hundred other people, Kurtis seemed to be the only one there ↗

— Dee Remy

#courage #ego #love #self-image #strength