The psychological impotence of our enraged generation must be traced to the overwhelming accusation of insincerity which every man and woman has to confront, in the depths of his own soul, when he seeks to love merely for his own pleasure. And yet the men of our time do not love with enough courage to risk even discomfort or inconvenience.
True courage is about knowing not when to take a life, but when to spare one.
Uniting two halves of one soul is inevitable, but timing depends upon your level of spirituality. When the time is ripe, true soul mates find one another even if they are worlds apart— whether physically, on opposite sides of the globe, or spiritually, with contrasting lifestyles and backgrounds. Here’s wishing you the courage to keep growing so that you may know – or continue to know – the blessing of oneness.
Mercy is the very foundation of the Church's life. . . The Church's very credibility is seen in how she shows merciful and compassionate love. . . Mercy is the force that reawakens us to new life and instills in us the courage to look to the future with hope.
A good seat on a horse steals away your opponent's courage and your onlooker's heart-what reason is there to attack? Sit like one who has conquered?
Courage is a mutual thing.
Courage is being the only only one who knows how terrified you are.
This is bravery: using the challenge of daily life to sharpen our mind and open our heart.
Courage is not the absence of fear — it s inspiring others to move beyond it.
The people of South Carolina support conservatives who are trying to push real change, and the people of South Carolina expect their presidential candidates to back them up when they show courage.
He might be a man without character, but she was a woman without courage. Of the two, which was worse?
Strong women- precious jewels all- their humanness is evident in their accessibility. We are able to enter into the spirit of these women and rejoice in their warmth and courage.
Its likely that a general pattern of behavior among threatened human societies is to become more blindered, rather than more focused on the crisis, as they fall.
Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you. Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional. Physical pain is a fact that comes with living, just as illness or financial woes or broken relationships are facts. But misery is a state of mind, a reaction to the facts, that can be controlled or altered by an act of will.
Celebrate those who have the courage to be second.
Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.
Solitude is one of our great superpowers. . . Solitude is the key to being able to make effective decisions and then having the courage of convictions to stand behind those decisions.
The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.
Courage is a moral quality; it is not a chance gift of nature like an aptitude for games. It is a cold choice between two alternatives.