The Earth was singing her revolution. She was calling her brave men and women to her defense.
Rivera SunTags: science inspirational activism nature courage revolution earth ecology social-justice climate-change coal
Don’t let mental blocks control you. Set yourself free. Confront your fear and turn the mental blocks into building blocks.
RoopleenTags: wisdom life words judge goals success books love passion inspiration self-esteem world peace dreams courage patience faith victory hope daring trust determination triumph motivation attitude authors failure leadership self-confidence dare quotes competition famous publishing positive-thinking idea speaking successful inspire willpower coaching you-can-do-it connect never-give-up counseling motivator promo
You don’t have the courage of a half-bred mongrel.
Patricia BriggsTags: humor courage insults alpha-and-omega hunting-ground
Adding kidney beans to his cottage cheese and pineapple was an act of bravery Dave had not intended.
Theric JepsonTags: humor courage bravery lds mormon byu salads beans
Once we face our fear, once we treat our anxiety itself as a thing, we can then choose otherwise. Instead of filling the unknown in our minds with expectations of the tragic, we can choose to fill the void with a different expectation – the expectation of adventure.
For example, Seneca, the Greek philosopher, refused to be afraid of what he did not know. When asked if he was afraid of dying, he replied, “Absolutely not, why should I be afraid of something I know nothing about.” His orientation toward the unknown of death was not to fill the gap in his understanding with horror but potential.
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Courage is a virtue appreciated in a male but considered a defect in our gender. Bold women are a threat to a world that is badly out of balance, in favor of men.
Isabel AllendeTags: men women courage bravery sexism
Here and there and not just in books we catch glimpses of a world of once upon a time and they lived happily ever after, of a world where there is a wizard to give courage and a heart, an angel with a white stone that has written on it our true and secret name, and it is so easy to dismiss it all that it is hardly worth bothering to do. ... But if the world of the fairy tale and our glimpses of it here and there are only a dream, they are one of the most haunting and powerful dreams that the world has ever dreamed...
Frederick BuechnerTags: courage dream fairy-tale once-upon-a-time angel haunting happily-ever-after wizard true-and-secret-name
The moral, I suppose, would be that the first requirements for a heroic career are the knightly virtues of loyalty, temperance, and courage. The loyalty in this case is of two degrees or commitments: first, to the chosen adventure, but then, also, to the ideals of the order of knighthood. Now, this second commitment seems to put Gawain's way in opposition to the way of the Buddha, who when ordered by the Lord of Duty to perform the social duties proper to his caste, simply ignored the command, and that night achieved illumination as well as release from rebirth. Gawain is a European and, like Odysseus, who remained true to the earth and returned from the Island of the Sun to his marriage with Penelope, he has accepted, as the commitment of his life, not release from but loyalty to the values of life in this world. And yet, as we have just seen, whether following the middle way of the Buddha or the middle way of Gawain, the passage to fulfillment lies between the perils of desire and fear.
Joseph CampbellTags: fear courage virtue desire hero loyalty buddha odysseus knight temperance gawain
Not all that have fallen are vanquished.
J.R.R. TolkienTags: inspirational optimism courage heaven hope poem life-lessons lotr the-fellowship-of-the-ring jrr-tolkien the-lord-of-the-rings the-riddle-of-strider
You just do it, then if you die, you die.
T. Scott McLeodTags: fear courage survival facing-fear
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