Favorite Quotations
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Courage & Bravery
Humor & Healing
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. ~ Amelia Earhart Let your pain be my sorrow/Let your tears be my tears too/Let your courage be my model/That the north you find will be true. ~ Sting We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.~ Helen Keller True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher. ~ John Petit-Senn Each of us has capacities. The real trick is knowing the machinery of the boat in which you are crossing the channel. ~ Joseph Campbell That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward. ~ Edgar Allen Poe Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave. ~ Mary Tyler Moore What kind of man would live a life without daring? Is life so sweet that we should criticize men that seek adventure? Is there a better way to die? ~ Charles Lindbergh To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself. ~ Søren Kierkegaard To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage. ~ Confucius The spiritual warrior hides from nothing. We jump into the fire, we dive into the ocean. We become the sea. ~ Charlotte Kasl, If the Buddha Dated
"I'm not funny. What I am is brave." ~ Lucille Ball