#oura

My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring, still. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#letter-to-my-daughter #courage

Courage comes in different forms. There's strength--that's the muscle. But love's the heart. When you put them together, you can do anything. ↗

— Nora Roberts

#courage

Even to me the issue of "stay small, sweet, quiet, and modest" sounds like an outdated problem, but the truth is that women still run into those demands whenever we find and use our voices. ↗

— Brené Brown

#voice #women #women-s-strength #courage

I believe that owning our worthiness is the act of acknowledging that we are sacred. Perhaps embracing vulnerability and overcoming numbing is ultimately about the care and feeding of our spirits ↗

— Brené Brown

#courage

It is argued that because they believed thoroughly in a just, moral God they could put there faith there and let the smaller insecurities take care of themselves. But I think that because they trusted themselves and respected themselves as individuals, because they knew beyond doubt that they were valuable and potential moral units- because of this they could give God their own courage and dignity and then receive it back. Such things have disappeared perhaps because men do not trust themselves anymore, and when that happens there is nothing left except perhaps to find some strong sure man, even though he may be wrong, and to dangle from his coat-tails. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#individuality #strength #courage

Most of the time it's not the Europeans who belittle us. What happens when we look at them is that we belittle ourselves. When we undertake the pilgrimage, it's not just to escape the tyranny at home but also to reach to the depths of our souls. The day arrives when the guilty must return to save those who could not find the courage to leave. ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

#identity #immigration #religion #courage

Do you think courage means being fearless? Or daring? Courage, real courage, is taking three steps when it terrifies you. ↗

— Catherine Anderson

#fear #fearless #inspirational #courage

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

— Paulo Coelho

#courage

We have made men proud of most vices, but not of cowardice. Whenever we have almost succeeded in doing so, God permits a war or an earthquake or some other calamity, and at once courage becomes so obviously lovely and important even in human eyes that all our work is undone, and there is still at least one vice of which they feel genuine shame. The danger of inducing cowardice in our patients, therefore, is lest we produce real self-knowledge and self-loathing, with consequent repentance and humility. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#human-nature #humility #courage

The church must suffer for speaking the truth, for pointing out sin, for uprooting sin. No one wants to have a sore spot touched, and therefore a society with so many sores twitches when someone has the courage to touch it and say: “You have to treat that. You have to get rid of that. Believe in Christ. Be converted. ↗

— Oscar A. Romero

#church #conversion #courage #sin #society