“Self-awareness doesn’t arrive on a golden cloud. It’s an achievement won through pain and courage.” — Thomas Moore
“Courage is amazing because it can tap in to the heart of fear, talking that frightened energy and turning it towards initiative, creativity, action and hope. When courage comes alive, imprisoning walls become frontiers of new possibility, difficulty becomes invitation and the heart comes into new rhythm of trust and sureness. There are secret sources of courage inside every human heart; yet courage needs to be awakened in us. The encounter with the Beautiful can bring such awakening. Courage is a spark that can become the flame of hope, lighting new and exciting pathways in what seemed to be dead, dark landscapes.” — John O’Donohue, “Beauty, The Invisible Embrace”
“You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.” — Aristotle
“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow.” — Mary Anne Radmacher
“Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.” — C.S. Lewis
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” — Anais Nin
“I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.” — Anais Nin
“I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.” — George Bernard Shaw
“Take Courage! Whatever you decide to do, it will probably be the wrong thing.” — Ashleigh Brilliant
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I like the quote from Mary Anne Radmacher. Sometimes it takes great courage to get out of bed.
I’ve had those days, Darlene…. ;^)