#oura

THE TIME CAME WHEN THE RISK IT TOOK TO REMAIN TIGHT IN THE BUD BECAME MORE PAINFUL THAN THE RISK IT TOOK TO BLOOM''... ↗

— Anais Nin

#courage #risk #time #courage

If you do not have courage, you may not have the opportunity to use any of your other virtues. ↗

— Samuel Jackson

#courage

Do," said Louisa finally, "whatever you can't not do. ↗

— David Mitchell

#integrity #courage

Something about this made Reynie uneasy. Had he done so badly? Was this meant to test his courage? He did as he was told, closing his eyes and bracing himself as best he could. "Why are you flinching?" the pencil woman asked. "I don't know. I thought maybe you were going to slap me." "Don't be ridiculous. I could slap you perfectly well with your eyes open. I'm only going to blindfold you. ↗

— Trenton Lee Stewart

#funny #courage

Absolute perfection is here and now, not in some future, near or far. The secret is in action - here and now. It is your behavior that blinds you to yourself. Disregard whatever you think yourself to be and act as if you were absolutely perfect - whatever your idea of perfection may be. All you need is courage. ↗

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#courage #here-and-now #perfection #courage

Let come the forces of night! We will stand!" "We will get the hell out of here is what we will do," I muttered. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#fight #funny #humor #courage

Hope is a function of struggle. ↗

— Brené Brown

#courage

It [is] that courage that Africa most desperately needs. ↗

— Barack Obama

#society #courage

But I think that because they trusted themselves and respected themselves as individuals, because they knew beyond doubt that they were valuable and potentially moral units -- because of this they could give God their own courage and dignity and then receive it back. Such things have disappeared perhaps because men do not trust themselves anymore, and when that happens there is nothing left except perhaps to find some strong sure man, even though he may be wrong, and to dangle from his coattails. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#self-trust #courage

When there is no peril in the fight, there is no glory in the triumph. ↗

— A. Alvarez

#courage