#fearlessness

This is the ending. Now not day only shall be beloved, but night too shall be beautiful and blessed and all its fear pass away. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#fearlessness #joy #night #beauty

I was perfectly calm and perfectly insane, perfectly prepared to accept what the moment had offered. Indifference of that magnitude is rare and because it can be achieved only by someone ready to let go of who he is, it demands respect. It inspires awe in those who gaze upon it. ↗

— Paul Auster

#fearlessness #insanity #nothing-to-lose #inspirational

I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. ↗

— Yann Martel

#fearless #fearlessness #life #life

Fear! Fear again, for the first time since his 'teens. Fear, that he thought he would never know any more. Fear that no weapon, no jeopardy, no natural cataclysm, has ever been able to inspire until now. And now here it is running icily through him in the hot Chinese noon. Fear for the thing he loves, the only fear that can ever wholly cow the reckless and the brave. ("Jane Brown's Body") ↗

— Cornell Woolrich

#fearless #fearlessness #inspirational

True morality consists not in following the beaten track, but in finding the true path for ourselves, and fearlessly following it. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#morality #path #true #fearless

I can share my dreams, and even encourage you along the way, but you have to have your own dreams. You have to want for something, and work towards it. Don't give up in when you feel overwhelmed, undeserving or unprepared. He has given you the gift(s) you will need. If you remember that, fear will have no place to reside. ↗

— J'son M. Lee

#fear #fearlessness #god #god-s-grace #motivational

These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness. ↗

— Anthony de Mello

#compassion #destroy #fearlessness #human #human race

I wouldn't give a tinker's damn for a man who isn't sometimes afraid. Fear's the spice that makes it interesting to go ahead. ↗

— Daniel Boone

#fear #fearlessness #courage

Fortune helps the intrepid and abandons the cowards. I am the daughter of a man who did not know of fear. Whatever may come, I am resolved to follow that course until death. ↗

— Caterina Sforza

#fearlessness #death

Being FEARLESS isn't being 100% Not FEARFUL, it's being terrified but you jump anyway... ↗

— Taylor Swift

#fearlessness #swift #taylor #taylor-swift #fear