#ra

We must train ourselves in courage and generosity. ↗

— roger caillois Edge of Surrealism p.

#generosity #courage

In it she told me, "Thanks a lot! I'm ruined - gloriously ruined." I nodded with sudden understanding. "that's it - that describes what has happened to me." I was ruined for life as I had known it before, but gloriously ruined! ↗

— Kay Warren

#kay-warren #say-yes-to-god #courage

Je suis noir comme la nuit mais mon courage est plus éclatant que le jour. ↗

— Gustave Rouger

#courage

In the end what will happen will be what has happened whenever a civilization breaks up. The people who have brains and courage come through and the ones who haven't are winnowed out. At least, it has been interesting, if not comfortable, to witness a Gotterdammerung.' 'A what?' 'A dusk of the gods. Unfortunately, we Southerners did think we were gods. ↗

— Margaret Mitchell

#courage

The moment you let your courage leave you, you turn to an abandoned old house! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#courage

Did I have the courage to forge a path ↗

— Terry Tempest Williams

#bravery #courage #forge-a-path #courage

Patrick: How do you know so much about dating? You're a teenage girl. Tess: Because I'm a teenage girl. ↗

— Steven James

#understanding-women #dating

the man who succeeds is the man who is able to reduce problems to their simplest terms and who has the courage of his convictions - despite the objections of intellectuals. The courage to speak, perhaps, even when he believes that what he is suggesting sounds like madness. ↗

— Philip Kerr

#success #courage

Today the word "hero" has been diminished. confused with "celebrity." But in my father's generation the word meant something. celebrities seek fame. They take actions to get attention. Most often, the actions they take have no particular moral content. Heroes are heroes because they have risked something to help others. Their actions involve courage. Often, those heroes have been indifferent to the public's attention. But at least, the hero could understand the focus of the emotion. ↗

— James Bradley

#heroes #insperational #courage

The moon had been lighted and was hung in a treetop. ↗

— Stephen Crane

#courage