Loud Thinking

Archive for June, 2013

“With age, you get to a place where you don’t want to knock
people out. You just want to give people a hug.”

— Vin Diesel

“Keep in mind that many people have died for their beliefs; it’s actually quite common. The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe.”

― Christopher Paolini, Eragon

“The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage.”

― Carrie Jones, Need

“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”

― Nelson Mandela

“Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”

― Rumi, Essential Rumi

“Freedom lies in being bold.”

― Robert Frost

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”

― Anaïs Nin

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.”

― Mark Twain

“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.”

― Meg Cabot

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”

― Lao Tzu