#rage

Each smallest act of kindness, reverberates across great distances and spans of time --affecting lives unknown to the one who’s generous spirit, was the source of this good echo. Because kindness is passed on and grows each time it’s passed until a simple courtesy becomes an act of selfless courage, years later, and far away. Likewise, each small meanness, each expression of hatred, each act of evil. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#kindness #courage

Wisdom equals knowledge plus courage. You have to not only know what to do and when to do it, but you have to also be brave enough to follow through. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#knowledge #wisdom #courage

You will be faced, now, with pain of a magnitude that none of us here can comprehend because it is beyond our experience. The Receiver himself was not able to describe it, only to remind us that you would be faced with it, that you would need immense courage. ↗

— Lois Lowry

#courage

Fear," the doctor said, "is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway. ↗

— Shirley Jackson

#fear #courage

Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. ↗

— Raymond Lindquist

#fear #growth #power #strength #courage

Jennifer Merrick had stored all her tears inside her, and her pride and courage would never permit her to break down and shed them. ↗

— Judith McNaught

#cry #pride #stock #tears #courage

We ought to face our destiny with courage. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#destiny #courage

All those years I thought that it was power that brought responsibility. It's not. I was wrong. It's responsibility that brings power. It's knowing what needs to be done that brings strength. And courage. ↗

— Peter Parker

#wisdom #courage

The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is. ↗

— John Lancaster Spaulding

#courage

I’ve learned that sometimes, when you’re afraid but you keep on moving forward, that’s the biggest kind of courage there is. ↗

— Cynthia Hand

#cynthia-hand #hallowed #life #courage