“...to be a coward was to embark on a career that lasted a lifetime”
“Being a hero was much easier than being a coward.”
Source: The Noise of Time
“The audacity. Not only was she (Joan of Arc) a peasant girl, unschooled and clueless in the ways of power, class and the military strategy, weaponry, the mechanics of a siege, but was determined to go into battle. What she had was courage.”
Source: A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith
“Unfortunately, we've rewarded a sort of cowardice by calling it 'kindness', and this has made us utterly spineless when truth finally hits.”
“Luck is only found where there is absolute courage.”
Source: The Divine Government: Guidance for the Leader
“The beauty of true love is that it's freely given. You don't have to earn it. All you have to do is have the courage to accept it.”
Source: The Mystery Princess
“It struck me as tremendously important and courageous. Freedom of speech in its pure form. People risking injury and death rather than stopping a publication of a book.”
Source: Turning Pages: The Adventures and Misadventures of a Publisher
“I would have sworn that the leap was going to end in disaster. I had applied the rubrics of fear and tediously calculated the nature of the risk, thereby adamantly determining it to be impossible. Yet, high in the lofty branches of the towering maple tree the squirrel leapt, and in doing so made it look effortless. And I thought, “How many times have I applied the rubrics of fear, overestimated the leap, and have therefore chosen to exist in a forest of one tree?” Therefore, my commitment in the coming year is to live in a forest of many trees.”
“For all my eyes couldn't see, my heart could perceive. The organ that forms first, that speaks loudest. Bulging straight from our chests bright as maraschino cherries, and brave as anything.”
Source: Glitter Saints: The Cosmic Art of Forgiveness, a Memoir
“I only have one advice for you, own your life, from head to toe - unapologetically alive and original, not a carbon copy, with second hand woe.”
Source: World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets