#oura

It is necessary to any originality to have the courage to be an amateur. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#originality #courage

When I asked you if you wanted to, I was not testing your courage. I was testing your wisdom. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#courage

You might, from your appearance, be the wife of Lucifer,” said Miss Pross, in her breathing. “Nevertheless, you shall not get the better of me. I am an Englishwoman. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#devil #englishmen #englishwomen #lucifer #match

The Western world has lost its civil courage, both as a whole and separately, in each country, each government, each political party and of course in the United Nations. Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling groups and the intellectual elite, causing an impression of loss of courage by the entire society. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#the-west #united-nations #weakness #courage

God's revelation... unmasks our illusions about ourselves. It exposes our pride, our individualism, our self-centeredness - in short, our sin. But worship also offers forgiveness, healing, transformation, motivation, and courage to work in the world for God's justice and peace - in short, salvation in its largest sense. ↗

— Marva J. Dawn

#theology #worship #courage

She could just pack up and leave, but she does not visualize what's beyond ahead. ↗

— Núria Añó

#feminism #freedom #gender #gender-inequality #hypocrisy

Hast thou given the horse strength? Hast thou clothed his neck with thunder?...He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage... ↗

— Robert Olmstead

#horses #nobility #strength #courage

Such is our need to shower blame on some distant entity when it is we who lack the courage to face up to what is there before us. ↗

— José Saramago

#courage

The encouraging thing is that every time you meet a situation, though you may think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it you find that forever after you are freer than you ever were before. . . . You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, “I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#courage

The human heart is the first home of democracy. It is where we embrace our questions. Can we be equitable? Can we be generous? Can we listen with our whole beings, not just our minds, and offer our attention rather than our opinions? And do we have enough resolve in our hearts to act courageously, relentlessly, without giving up--ever--trusting our fellow citizens to join with us in our determined pursuit of a living democracy? ↗

— Terry Tempest Williams

#democracy #courage