"That is fundamentally the only courage which is demanded of us: to be brave in the face of the strangest, most singular and most inexplicable things that can befall us."

Courage, Existence, Fear, Acceptance

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"That is fundamentally the only courage which is demanded of us: to be brave in the face of the strangest, most singular and most inexplicable things that can befall us."

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"We can overcome the uncertainties in life with courage and hope."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Courage, Overcome, Uncertainties, Life

"It's too risky", said doubters. "It's too difficult", said scoffers. "It's pointless", said mockers. "It's impossible", said haters. "It's already done", said believers."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Courage, Risk, Belief, Skeptics, Determination

"When people do the cowardly thing, it's not about respect, it's about fear."

Salman Rushdie, Indian Novelist

Courage, Fear, Respect, Human, Emotion

"Fear is not respect. It is but a conniving, little weasel next to that mighty lion. They are a far, far cry from the same animal."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Courage, Fear, Truth, Power, Inspirational

"Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Courage, Death, Fear

"When you break rules, break 'em good and hard."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Courage, Rebellion, Rules, Change, Power

"A mighty storm is inconsequential when facing a mighty ship."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Courage, Storm, Ship, Mighty, Strength

"A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death. It not only gives us fortitude to bear pain but teaches us at every step the precarious tenure on which we hold our present being."

William Hazlitt, English Critic

Courage, Action, Danger, Fear, Fortitude

"Small men oft feel a need to prove their courage with unseemly boasts," he declared. "I doubt if he could kill a duck."Tyrion shrugged. "Fetch the duck."

George R. R. Martin, American Author

Courage, Bravery, Doubt, Strength

"We need courage to take ourselves seriously, to look closely and without flinching, to regard the things that frighten us in life and art with wonder."

Elizabeth Gilbert, American Novelist

Courage, Fear, Wonder, Truth

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"Works of art are infinitely solitary and nothing is less likely to reach them than criticism. Only love can grasp them and hold them and do them justice."

Aesthetics, Art, Solitude, Criticism, Love

"Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further."

Art, Experience, Danger, End

"Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other."

Love,

"Works of Art are of an infinite loneliness."

Loneliness, Art, Solitude, Creation, Expression

"I would like to sing someone to sleep,to sit beside someone and be there.I would like to rock you and sing softlyand go with you to and from sleep.I would like to be the one in the housewho knew: The night was cold.And I would like to listen in and listen outinto you, into the world, into the woods.The clocks shout to one another striking,and one sees to the bottom of time.And down below one last, strange man walks byand rouses a strange dog.And after that comes silence.I have laid my eyes upon you wide;and they hold you gently and let you gowhen something stirs in the dark."

Care, Love, Comfort, Peace

"Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it."

Work, Feelings, Belief, Reality

"But not you, O girl, nor yet his mother,stretched his eyebrows so fierce with expectation.Not for your mouth, you who hold him now,did his lips ripen into these fervent contours.Do you really think your quiet footstepscould have so convulsed him, you who move like dawn wind?True, you startled his heart; but older terrorsrushed into him with that first jolt to his emotions.Call him . . . you'll never quite retrieve him from those dark consorts.Yes, he wants to, he escapes; relieved, he makes a homein your familiar heart, takes root there and begins himself anew.But did he ever begin himself?"

Longing, Emotion, Memory, Love, Loss

"Whoever you are, go out into the evening,leaving your room, of which you know every bit;your house is the last before the infinite,whoever you are."

Journey, Solitude, Infinity, Evening, Exploration

"Then suddenly you're left all alonewith your body that can't love youand your will that can't save you."

Despair, Loneliness, Body, Love, Will

"No, my life is not this precipitous hourthrough which you see me passing at a run."

Life, Time, Moment, Existence