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.
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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.
If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.
He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.
It is a brave thing to have courage to be an individual; it is also, perhaps, a lonely thing. But it is better than not being an individual, which is to be nobody at all.
It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.
We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.
I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
We're so busy resigning ourselves to the inevitable that we don't even ask if it is inevitable. We've got to have courage, to take our future into our hands. If the law is oppressive, we must change the law. If tradition is obstructive, we must break tradition. If the system is unjust, we must reform the system.
You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
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