#oura

Perhaps it is only the light. Perhaps it is the power of the realms at work through me. Or perhaps it is some combination of spirit and desire, love and hope, some alchemy that we each possess and can put to use, if first we know were to look without flinching. ↗

— Libba Bray

#courage

She gave me the slow nod women use to indicate that they understand our pain, they admire the courage with which we handle it, and they're absolutely certain that it's all our fault. ↗

— Timothy Hallinan

#courage

The secret idea she was forming of an afterlife gave her the foothold she needed to endure the agonies to come, a newfound courage and optimism which found instant expression through SHOPPING. ↗

— Lucy Ellmann

#shopping #courage

Any human face is a claim on you, because you can't help but understand the singularity of it, the courage and loneliness of it. But this is truest of the face of an infant. I consider that to be one kind of vision, as mystical as any. ↗

— Marilynne Robinson

#courage

He talks about God, and loving God. he says that when we open to loving a person, whether that person is a spouse, friend, or child, we open our hearts to loving God. He says when we let someone love us, we're opening our hearts to god's love. he says the acts are the same. p 19 I decide loving isn't for the fain. Its for the courageous. p 19 ↗

— Melody Beattie

#read #courage

Stop thinking all the time that you're in the way, that you're bothering the person next to you. If people don't like it, they can complain. And if they don't have courage to complain, that's their problem. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#love #personality #courage

Increasingly, the mathematics will demand the courage to face its implications. ↗

— Michael Crichton

#courage

Sooner I realized, he doesn't need to be big to be brave, because bravery is the courage found in the heart... ↗

— Aishah Madadiy

#courage

You can't do what you want to, so just do what you have to. ↗

— Moveena Rasheed

#determination #inspirationa #rules-to-live-by #courage

But there are some things, child, that you should steal. That you must steal, if you have enough love and courage in your heart. You must snatch freedom from the hands of the tyrant. You must spirit away innocent lives before they are destroyed. You must hide secret and sacred places. ↗

— Lian Tanner

#courage #stealing #theft #courage