#ward

We believe that preparation eradicates cowardice, which we define as the failure to act in the midst of fear. ↗

— Veronica Roth

#cowardice #dauntless #four #tris #cowardice

When in doubt chicken out. ↗

— Robin Jones Gunn

#inaction #cowardice

Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice. ↗

— André Gide

#fear #ridicule #cowardice

But by God, he was going to stop running from his cowardice. He had to own his shit - even if it made him hate himself to the core. Because maybe if he did, he'd stop trying to distract himself with sex and drinking, and figure out what he did want. Apart from Blay, that was. ↗

— J.R. Ward

#black-dagger-brotherhood #lover-unleashded #qhuinn #cowardice

Alec would have said he could have benefited from a bit more in the way of constructive cowardice. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#jace #cowardice

Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities. ↗

— Criss Jami

#creative #creativity #disagreeable #envy #intimidating

She’s just a little faint,” I reassured Mrs. Hammond. “They’re blood typing in biology.” She nodded, understanding now. “There’s always one.” I stifled a laugh. Trust Bella to be that one. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#midnight-sun #stephenie-meyer #twilight #biology

I coveted you. I had no right to want you--but I reached out and took you anyway. And now look what's become of you! Trying to seduce a vampire. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#seduction #seduction

If you are a warrior, decency means that you are not cheating anybody at all. You are not even about to cheat anybody. There is a sense of straightforwardness and simplicity. With setting-sun vision, or vision based on cowardice, straightforwardness is always a problem. If people have some story or news to tell somebody else, first of all they are either excited or disappointed. Then they begin to figure out how to tell their news. They develop a plan, which leads them completely away from simply telling it. By the time a person hears the news, it is not news at all, but opinion. It becomes a message of some kind, rather than fresh, straightforward news. Decency is the absence of strategy. It is of utmost importance to realize that the warrior’s approach should be simple-minded sometimes, very simple and straightforward. That makes it very beautiful: you having nothing up your sleeve; therefore a sense of genuineness comes through. That is decency. ↗

— Chögyam Trungpa

#genuine #simplicity #straightforwardness #warrior #beauty

Appeals to the past are among the commonest of strategies in interpretations of the present. ↗

— Edward W. Said

#edward-said #strategy