#ura

[C]ourage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#virtues #courage

The way I miss my daughter Esme is to worry about her. It is not a pleasurable longing. It contorts my body and scrambles my brain, makes me stop breathing, clench my jaw and my fists, it makes me frown, and makes me blind and deaf, in fact entirely without sensory perception. ↗

— Olivia Williams

#blind #body #brain #breathing #daughter

I’ve found the things I’ve regretted most in my life are the things I wanted to do but never had the courage to try. And I’m beginning to think I don’t want you to become one of my what-if-I’d-only-tried-it regrets. ↗

— Linda Kage

#courage

Courage doesn't mean being free from fear; it means learning to work through fear and speak even when we are afraid. ↗

— Joanna Brooks

#courage

I would ask my parents something, but then go to my siblings. We were encouraged to bounce ideas off everyone. ↗

— Ahmet Zappa

#bounce #encouraged #everyone #go #i

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#death #duration #eternal #eternal life #eternity

Courage becomes a worthwhile and meaningful virtue when it is regarded not so much as a willingness to die manfully but as a determination to live decently. ↗

— Thomas S. Monson

#integrity #morality #courage

Fear is a fire to temper courage and resolve. Use it so. ↗

— Terry Brooks

#memorable #courage

We need to make fun of and ridicule the media images that seek to keep us down, divide us against each other by age, class, and race, and insist that we spend so much psychic energy on our faces, clothes and bodies that nothing is left for ideas, social change, or politics. ↗

— Susan Douglas

#media #social-change #age

Love is like life with or without justice, with or without fairness. ↗

— Fadi Hattendorf

#fairness #inspirational #justice #life #love