Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
3784169 | He knew you can't really be strong until you can see a funny side of things. | strong strength-and-courage | Ken Kesey | |
3fbde94 | Prophet,' he said, 'Your doctrines I do not know; therefore if I accepted them, I would do it out of fear like a coward and a base man. Are you anxious that your faith be professed by cowards and base people? | courage faith strength strength-through-adversity strength-and-courage | Henryk Sienkiewicz | |
d7b660b | For fear, real fear, such as shakes you to your foundation, such as you feel when you are brought face to face with your mortal end, nestles in your memory like a gangrene: it seeks to rot everything, even the words with which to speak of it. So you must fight hard to express it. You must fight hard to shine the light of words upon it. Because if you don't, if your fear becomes a wordless darkness that you avoid, perhaps even manage to forget, you open yourself to further attacks of fear because you never truly fought the opponent who defeated you. | fear strength-and-courage | Yann Martel | |
d2ce415 | Would you walk away from Omelas? | courage decision-makingsion the-ones-we-leave-behind strength-of-character strength-and-courage | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
2b55ac0 | I was three inches taller but he could smell my fear. | strength-and-courage | Lori Lansens |