It is easy to say the word forgiveness but the challenge is to live the word forgiveness.
Karen Todd ScarpullaTags: courage moving-on forgiveness challenge
Beyond all of that, I could see the wall I had seen from inside the train, the wall that runs along the train line. I assumed that there, behind it, was the west, and I was right. I could have been wrong, but I was right.' If she had any future it was over there, and she needed to get to it.
I sit in the chair exploring the meaning of dumbstruck, rolling the word around in my mind. I laugh with Miriam as she laughs at herself, and at the boldness of being sixteen. At sixteen you are invulnerable. I laugh with her about rummaging around for a ladder in other people's sheds, and I laugh harder when she finds one. We laugh at the improbability of it, of someone barely more than a child poking around in Beatrix Potter's garden by the Wall, watching out for Mr McGregor and his blunderbuss, and looking for a step-ladder to scale one of the most fortified barriers on earth. We both like the girl she was, and I like the woman she has become.
She says suddenly, 'I still have the scars on my hands from climbing the barbed wire, but you can't see them so well now.' She holds out her hands. The soft parts of her palms are crazed with definite white scares, each about a centimeter long.
The first fence was wire mesh with a roll of barbed wire along the top.
Tags: freedom belief courage scars dark-humor escape teenager self-belief gdr wall berlin-wall captive fence barb-wire escape-attempt
I am not powerless.
Ky GrabowskiCourage is not a feeling. Courage is an action.
Liz TolsmaTags: courage
A real man—real in all the ways that we recognize as real—finds himself suddenly abstracted from the world and deposited in a physical situation which could not possibly exist: sounds have aroma, smells have color and depth, sights have texture, touches have pitch and timbre. There he is informed by a disembodied voice that he has been brought to that place as a champion for his world. He must fight to the death in single combat against a champion from another world. If he is defeated, he will die, and his world—the real world—will be destroyed because it lacks the inner strength to survive.
The man refuses to believe that what he is told is true. He asserts that he is either dreaming or hallucinating, and declines to be put in the false position of fighting to the death where no "real" danger exists. He is implacable in his determination to disbelieve his apparent situation, and does not defend himself when he is attacked by the champion of the other world.
Question: Is the man's behavior courageous or cowardly? This is the fundamental question of ethics.
Tags: reality ethics courage cowardice
there are two spiritual tests: The patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be diappointed to what you have encounter.
Tags: courage patience spirituality paolo-coelho veronika-decides-to-die tests-of-life
Accepting that life is insane, that bad things happen to good people and that you can find the courage to be grateful for the good in every situation and still move forward is hard (even terrifying), but heroic.
Richie NortonTags: life life-experience courage good bad life-lessons life-and-living lifestyle insane situation grateful heroic accepting good-people life-experiences bad-things move-forward accepting-yourself
It takes more effort to avoid the truth than it does to face it.
Robert J. BraatheEl amor es para valientes.
Jordi BalaguerTags: life love courage fantasy trust brave courageous
You overestimate the courage of those in power. They are often more interested in holding on to that power than in doing anything worthwhile with it.
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