Quotes on Love And Courage

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.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

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.

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.

Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.