Topics ยป Courage
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I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.
Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.
To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.
We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.