It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.
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It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.
Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.
Love is a condition so powerful; it may be that which pulls the stars in the firmament. It may be that which pushes and urges the blood in the veins. Courage: you have to have courage to love somebody because you risk everything-ever ything.
Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes bravery involves laying down your life for something bigger than yourself, or for someone else. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved, for the sake of something greater. But sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes it is nothing more than gritting your teeth through pain, and the work of every day, the slow walk toward a better life. That is the sort of bravery I must have now.
It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.
Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
You have to have courage to love somebody. Because you risk everything. Everything.
Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that. And living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on Earth.
Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.
If we had the courage to love we would not so value these acts of war.
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