Wisdom on courage
Posté le 21 mai 2015
A leader must be wisely courageous.
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them. – Rabindranath Tagore
To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself. – Soren Kierkegaard
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. – R. G. Ingersoll
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
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. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could. – Louise Erdrich
Special acknowledgement to Symphony of Love: Inspiring Love, Peace, and Happiness for the beautiful and insightful photo.
Jeanne Yizhen YIN
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