#knowledge

The ability to withstand the flinch comes with the knowledge that the future will be better than the past. ↗

— Julien Smith

#courage #flinch #future #knowledge #past

Knowledge without courage is sterile. ↗

— Baltasar Gracián

#knowledge #courage

Encourage literally came from "in courage." The courage is put "into" you from outside. Our character and abilities grow through internalizing from others what we do not possess in ourselves. ↗

— Dr. Henry Cloud

#character-defining #character-development #character-driven #character-quote #encourage

A lover exists only in fragments, a dozen or so if the romance is new, a thousand if we're married to him, and out of those fragments our heart constructs an entire person. What we each create, since whatever is missing is filled by our imagination, is the person we wish him to be. The less we know him, of course, the more we love him. And that's why we always remember that first rapturous night when he was a stranger, and why this rapture returns only when he's dead. ↗

— Andrew Sean Greer

#existentialism #imagination #knowing-someone #knowledge #love

...perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#harry-potter #j-k-rowling #knowledge #lessons #smart

I am blind and limited. I would be a fool think myself wise. And so, not knowing what the universe means, I can only try to be responsible with the knowledge, the strength, and the time given to me. I must be true to my heart. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#knowledge #responsibility #death

...and understand that there are far, far worse things in the living world than dying. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#dying #harry-potter #j-k-rowling #knowledge #lessons

I don't know much more than I did when I was alive. Most of the stuff I know now that I didn't know then I can't put into words. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#knowledge #death

You are unwilling to pay that price, even knowing that the consolation prize is not only to learn every philosophy that has ever existed, but ones which have not yet been conceived? Even knowing that if you do not accept, you will soon cease to learn anything at all?" Raimund tilted his head, still staring into my eyes, and I knew he must see the tears filling them, though I held them back from falling. "My friend," he whispered, "do you really believe your own words, I wonder? Your pain makes me think you know that death is not the end of learning, but only the beginning. ↗

— Krisi Keley

#knowledge #death

One is seldom unchanged by the death of those one loves. It gives me a deeper knowledge of them, and so of oneself in regard to them. ↗

— Elizabeth Goudge

#knowledge #loved-ones #death