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Think of Life as Course Corrections
“While breaking ground requires courage, so does changing course. It’s something I’ve come to appreciate as being vital and requiring a good amount of guts. I call it course correction and it can require the greatest courage because when you … Continue reading
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Those of us who read carry around with us a secret knowledge
“What I sought in books was imagination, it was depth, depth of thought and feeling; some sort of extreme of subject matter; some nearness to death; some call to courage. I myself was getting wild; I wanted wildness, originality, genius, … Continue reading
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Tagged Annie Dillard, Books, courage, reading, strength
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One’s embrace may be turned outward
“Nobody grows up. Everybody carries around all the selves that they have ever been, intact, waiting to be reactivated in moments of pain, of fear, of danger. Everything is retrievable, every shock, every hurt. But perhaps it becomes a duty … Continue reading
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It Seems a Man Can Just About Bear Anything
“The mild red road goes on beneath the slanting and peaceful afternoon, mounting a hill. “Well, I can bear a hill,” he thinks. “I can bear a hill, a man can.” It is peaceful and still. “It seems a man … Continue reading
Niceness Alone Doesn’t Cut It
“In our culture, people tend to be valued for being inspiring and entertaining. With perhaps the notable exception of some morning-show hostesses, people are rewarded for being bold and inventive. For being assertive, funny, and individualistic. For having a bit … Continue reading
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Tagged character, courage, Eleanor Roosevelt, Julia Child, Molly Ivins, niceness, Queen Latifah, quote, strong woman
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What would Rescue Her was Time Itself
” I wondered how often the future waits on the other side of the wall, knocking very quietly, too politely for us to hear, and I was filled with longing to reach back into my life and inform that unhappy … Continue reading
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Tagged courage, faith, hopeful future, love, time heals
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All courage is a form of constancy
” He talked of those things we had spoken of so often at Rosario. So often and so far into the night. He said that those who have endured some misfortune will always be set apart but that it is … Continue reading
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Tagged Cormac Mccarthy, courage, person of value, quote, strength
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If you can’t take it, you ain’t gonna make it
” I still have a lot of folks come up—black and white—who try to discourage me, and it don’t even faze me anymore. I don’t let nobody tell me what I can’t do. Only time I say I can’t do somethin’ … Continue reading
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Nudge the spirit towards a place where it can flourish
“Important events–whether serious, happy, or unfortunate–do not change a man’s soul, they merely bring it into relief, just as a strong gust of wind reveals the true shape of a tree when it blows off all its leaves. Such events … Continue reading
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