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You can always die. It's living that takes real courage." - Himura Kenshin ↗

— Watsuki Nobuhiro

#manga #samurai #courage

I think if human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween. Wouldn't life be more interesting that way? And now that I think about it, why the heck don't they? Who made the rule that everybody has to dress like sheep 364 days of the year? Think of all the people you'd meet if they were in costume every day. People would be so much easier to talk to - like talking to dogs. ↗

— Douglas Coupland

#halloween #people #courage

But there were worse things than disappointment, and I'd lived through several of them already. ↗

— R.J. Anderson

#disappointment #relatable #courage

A bolt of warmth, fierce with joy and pride and gratitude, flashed through me like sudden lightning. I don’t care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching—they are your family. And they were my heroes. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#courage #family #friendship #harry-dresden #karrin-murphy

Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#integrity #moral-courage #courage

Language ... has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone. ↗

— Paul Tillich

#independence #language #loneliness #pain #paradox

Sometimes standing against evil is more important than defeating it. The greatest heroes stand because it is right to do so, not because they believe they will walk away with their lives. Such selfless courage is a victory in itself. ↗

— N.D. Wilson

#heroism #victory #courage

People will always have opinions about your decision because they're not courageous enough to take action on their opinion. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#courageous #decision #inspirational #life #motivational

Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage. ↗

— Thucydides

#discipline #self-control #self-respect #courage

A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably ↗

— William Penn

#courage