#rage

Not only is our love for our children sometimes tinged with annoyance, discouragement, and disappointment, the same is true for the love our children feel for us. ↗

— Bruno Bettelheim

#children #disappointment #discouragement #feel #love

It's a question of why they come for your advice. Whatever I tell you, it doesn't matter, it is completely irrelevant in a way. I know so many actors who were discouraged and put that aside. You will get half-baked opinions. ↗

— Michael York

#aside #come #completely #discouraged #get

The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt. ↗

— Paul Tillich

#appears #courage #disappeared #doubt #god

If there's one thing I've discovered, it's that stifling yourself will only lead to more misery. [...] I polluted all other happiness because I was afraid to let myself create and change. You have to have courage. Real courage to explore, to fail, and to pick yourself back up again. ↗

— Siobhan Vivian

#creativity #misery #change

I asked him if it were a mirage, and he said yes. I said it was a dream, and he agreed, But said it was the desert's dream not his. And he told me that in a year or so, when he had aged enough for any man, then he would walk into the wind, until he saw the tents. This time, he said, he would go on with them. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#desert #elderly #mirage #age

Age of the geek, baby, we rule the world! ↗

— Alec Hardison

#age

If, as has been postulated before, heroism happens when courage meets circumstance, what if the circumstances are mundane? ↗

— Brad Herzog

#heroes #heroism #courage

Creativity takes courage. ↗

— Henri Matisse

#creativity #takes

And while it takes courage to achieve greatness, it takes more courage to find fulfillment in being ordinary. For the joys that last have little relationship to achievement, to standing one step higher on the victory platform. What is the adventure in being ordinary? It is daring to love just for the pleasure of giving it away. It is venturing to give new life and to nurture it to maturity. It is working hard for the pure joy of being tired at the end of the day. It is caring and sharing and giving and loving… ↗

— Marilyn Thomsen

#courage

When you SEE into the invisible, you will DARE to do the impossible! ↗

— John Paul Warren

#courage #faith #john-paul #john-paul-warren #motivation