We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
Interpretation
Courage is essential to overcome fear and obstacles in life.
This quote emphasizes the importance of courage in combating fear. It suggests that just as dikes protect land from flooding, courage can help to contain and manage the overwhelming emotions and uncertainties that fear brings, enabling individuals to face challenges head-on.
In practice
In a motivational speech addressing students about facing their anxieties about exams.
This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love.
Music is the best consolation for a despaired man
We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.
We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
Israel... is one of the great outpost of democracy in the world
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
This is the first teaching of the Knights: You will erase everything you had written in the book of your life up until now: restlessness, uncertainty, lies. And in the place of all this you will write the word courage.
We live in a country where people still get beaten to death because of their sexual orientation.
At Tara in this fateful hour, I place all Heaven with its power, And the sun with its brightness, And the snow with its whiteness, And the fire with all the strength it hath, And the lightning with its rapid wrath, And the winds with their swiftness along their path, And the sea with its deepness, And the rocks with their steepness, And the earth with its starkness: All these I place, By God's almighty help and grace Between myself and the powers of darkness!
Indifference is dangerous, whether innocent or not.
A bad war is fought with a good mind.
We have not journeyed all this way because we are made of sugar candy.
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