#ran

In this world only the paranoid survive. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#funny #paranoid #wise #world #funny

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#fear #friends #makes #people #strangers

The shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance. ↗

— Dan Simmons

#ignorance #courage

... that's how life should be, when one person loses heart, the other must have heart and courage enough for both. ↗

— José Saramago

#perseverance #courage

It is the hardest thing of all, the one thing that will show if you have the one true courage. To know that you have failed, that your best efforts have been defeated, to not be able to stand it, to not be able to go on and yet to go on nonetheless. ↗

— Silvia Hartmann

#endurance #failure #hard #mantra #moving-on

Boy, the solid things you can hold in your hands are never all you've got. They're the least of what belong to you. The qualities inside you, those are what you've really got to defend yourself with. ↗

— Traci L. Slatton

#perseverance #strength-of-character #wisdom #courage

Courage, my child, is not the absence of fear. It's the triumph over fear. ↗

— Wynne Channing

#what-kills-me #courage

The ability to withstand the flinch comes with the knowledge that the future will be better than the past. ↗

— Julien Smith

#courage #flinch #future #knowledge #past

It is obvious that the concept of truth has become suspect. Of course it is correct that is has been much abused. Intolerance and cruelty have occurred in the name of truth. To that extent people are afraid when someone says, "This is the truth", or even "I have the truth". We never have it, at best is has us. No one will dispute that one must be careful and cautious in claiming the truth. But simply to dismiss it as unattainable is really destructive. (...) We must have the courage to dare to say: Yes, man must seek the truth; he is capable of truth. It goes without saying that truth requires criteria for verification and falsification. It must always be accompanied by tolerance, also. But then truth also points out to us those constant values which have made mankind great. That is why the humility to recognize the truth and to accept it as a standard has to be relearned and practiced again. The truth comes to rule, not through violence, but rather through its own power; this is the central theme of John's Gospel: When brought before Pilate, Jesus professes that he himself is The Truth and the witness to the truth. He does not defend the truth with legions but rather makes it visible through his Passion and thereby also implements it. ↗

— Pope Benedict XVI

#truth #violence #courage

If liquid courage smelled like cologne and gushed out of my penis, I’d make a better fire fighter than I’m not right now. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#penis #strange #surreal #change