#very

I am not a courageous person by nature. I have simply discovered that, at certain key moments in this life, you must find courage in yourself, in order to move forward and live. It is like a muscle and it must be exercised, first a little, and then more and more. All the really exciting things possible during the course of a lifetime require a little more courage than we currently have. A deep breath and a leap. ↗

— John Patrick Shanley

#courage #life #courage

I've never lived in the visual world. I live very much in an emotional-contact world. ↗

— Richard Simmons

#live #lived #much #never #very

I felt the Lord telling me just to be patient all year. Whether it happened this year, next, or never, everything was going to be okay. ↗

— Webb Simpson

#everything #felt #going #happened #i

In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. ↗

— Dario Argento

#censor #italy #judges #many #old

A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every germ. The infection, when it comes- and it will come- may overwhelm the system, be it the immune system or the belief system. ↗

— Jane Smiley

#child #controversial #every #germ #ideas

Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches. ↗

— Goldwin Smith

#beauty #churches #every #feels #heart

I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out. ↗

— Katherine Dunn

#been #believer #discovered #early #early age

Soldiers and peasants lived together on friendly terms; they knew each other and their everyday routines, and trusted each other; they shook their heads together over the war. ↗

— Ernst Toller

#everyday #friendly #heads #knew #lived

It's a lot like life. I think 99 percent of what goes on in life, we have very little control over. ↗

— Andy Van Slyke

#goes #i #i think #life #like

Sometimes we get very frustrated here on court. It is tough to control. It is a mistake. ↗

— David Nalbandian

#court #frustrated #get #here #mistake