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Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others. -- Brene Brown
Have enough courage to love. -- Maya Angelou
Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer. -- Anthony Trollope
I hated you when it would have taken less courage to love. -- Charles Bukowski
You have to have courage to love somebody. Because you risk everything. Everything. -- Maya Angelou
Courage is a greater virtue than love. At best, it takes courage to love. -- Paul Tillich
If we had the courage to love we would not so value these acts of war. -- Jeanette Winterson
It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
For me the prophetic has to do with mustering the courage to love, to empathize, to exercise compassion, and to be committed to justice. -- Cornel West
There will always be a few people who have the courage to love what is untamed inside us. One of those men is my father. -- Alison Lohman
Courage is the enabling virtue for any philosopher - for any human being, I think, in the end. Courage to think, courage to love, courage to hope. -- Cornel West
Dear child, I only did to you what the sparrow did to you; I am old when it is fashionable to be young; I cry when it is fashionable to laugh. I hated you when it would have taken less courage to love. -- Charles Bukowski
Love is a condition so powerful; it may be that which pulls the stars in the firmament. It may be that which pushes and urges the blood in the veins. Courage: you have to have courage to love somebody because you risk everything-ever ything. -- Maya Angelou
You know what gives me the courage to keep on living? The courage to love myself a little? It's having a whole bunch of friends who really give a goddamn. When you share pain, there's less of it, and when you share joy, there's more of it. -- Spider Robinson
It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
It would be sad if we lost our instinct and our courage to love and protect. -- Emeli Sande
The functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy. -- Dean Koontz
Never lose hope, and if you can, find the courage to love again. -- Danielle Steel
If you have the courage to love, then you should have the courage to suffer, too. -- E.H. Majaw
Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others. -- Brene Brown
You gave me the courage to love. To dared to dream for things I never imagined were possible for me. -- D.C. Akers
Comfortless was my religion, anxiety of the anxieties, for I believed God was not love, but courage. Love came only as a reward. -- Norman Mailer
Anyone can love you when things are alright. It takes courage to love when things are not good and it does not feel right. -- Yolanda Adams
You must have courage to love, you have to have a profound will to do what is right to love, and it does not come easy. -- bell hooks
Fill ev'ry glass, for wine inspires us, And fires us With courage, love and joy. Women and wine should life employ. Is there ought else on earth desirous? -- John Gay
Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. -- Terence McKenna
Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion, and empathy. -- Dean Koontz
Zeal is the great desire to make God known, loved, and served, and thus to bring knowledge of salvation to others. Activity flows from this virtue. Teachers who possess it fulfill the duties of their profession with enthusiasm, love, courage, and perseverance. -- Basil Moreau
Love without courage and wisdom is sentimentality, as with the ordinary church member. Courage without love and wisdom is foolhardiness, as with the ordinary soldier. Wisdom without love and courage is cowardice, as with the ordinary intellectual. But the one who has love, courage and wisdom moves the world. -- Ammon Hennacy
There is a sort of fair play, and if you can get in touch with that in your life, if you can have that perception, the world will begin to work for you, it will begin to move toward you... Nature loves courage, and it shows you that loves courage because it will remove obstacles. -- Terence McKenna
Is there some meaning to this life? What purpose lies behind the strife? Whence do we come, where are we bound? These cold questions echo and resound through each day, each lonely night. We long to find the splendid light that will cast a revelatory beam upon the meaning of the human dream. Courage, love, friendship, compassion, and empathy lift us above the simple beasts and define humanity. -- Dean Koontz
The word courage - God, I love that word. Words are so important to me. -- Peter Fonda
Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known? -- William Shakespeare
I would love to be a Franciscan brother. I'm just not sure I have the courage to do it. -- Rich Mullins
If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it. -- John Irving
Art, it seems to me, doesn't need freedom so much as it needs courage and love - some would call it 'soul' or 'Eros.' -- Michael Leunig
The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage. -- Joseph Conrad
You must have love as the core; it takes courage to be willing to constantly tell the truth to each other and risk letting the relationship go. -- Kenny Loggins
I love revolutionaries who have the courage to stand up against the status quo. They're always misunderstood, but they're the ones who are standing up for human rights. -- Richard Hatch
My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return. -- Maya Angelou
Love and peace of mind do protect us. They allow us to overcome the problems that life hands us. They teach us to survive... to live now... to have the courage to confront each day. -- Bernie Siegel
Courage is managing fear to accomplish what you want to accomplish. And it's a great demonstration of love. It's really what love is. It's finding areas in which other people are more important than you. -- Rudy Giuliani
It takes courage, of course, to step out of the fray, as it takes courage to do anything that's necessary, whether tending to a loved one on her deathbed or turning away from that sugarcoated doughnut. -- Pico Iyer
Men have a psychological need to show off their courage and strength. When he sees you talking to another guy, that instinct kicks in and he jumps to protect you and prove he's worthy of your love. -- Helen Fisher
I'm not a fighter, but I would love to be a boxer because I love the courage and toughness. I mean, there can be nothing more terrifying than walking into an arena and looking at Mike Tyson in the ring. -- Mark McGrath
Only choices made in love are compassionate. There are no exceptions. Do you have the courage to act with an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome? If not, you have no ability to give or experience compassion. That is the shocking truth. -- Gary Zukav
I really thank my parents for giving me the good sense to not get into anything wrong. There are many people around who like controversies, and I actually wonder how do they do it. I don't have the courage to get into controversies. There are people who love it; I find it silly. -- Saina Nehwal
With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it. -- Thich Nhat Hanh
When somebody who makes movies for a living - either as an actor, writer, producer or director - lives to be a certain age, you have to admire them. It is an act of courage to make a film - a courage for which you are not prepared in the rest of life. It is very hard and very destructive. But we do it because we love it. -- John Carpenter
Love is an act of courage. -- Paulo Freire
Imagination takes humility, love and great courage. -- Carson McCullers
Love always requires courage and involves risk. -- M. Scott Peck
Courage Is a Love Affair with the Unknown -- Rajneesh
Hate is... It's too easy. Love. Love takes courage. -- Hannah Harrington
Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Courage is like love, it must have hope for nourishment. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
For beautiful success, serve with love and serve with courage. -- Debasish Mridha M.D.
Remember: courage, unused, diminishes. Commitment, unexercised, wanes. Love, unshared, dissipates. -- Tony Robbins
Always protect your heart with unconditional self-love, faith and courage. -- Edmond Mbiaka
Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power -- B.K.S. Iyengar
Love, Faith, Courage, with these three we can win the world -- Regina Maria a Romaniei
The treasures of the earth were movement, courage, laughter and love. -- Mark Helprin
Education is an act of love, and thus an act of courage -- Paulo Freire
Work, love, courage and hope,Make me good and help me cope! -- Anne Frank
Continuous understanding goes with love, courage, respect, discovery and acceptance of mistakes. -- Auliq Ice
Develop a capacity for things like purpose, love, wonder, courage, and grace. -- John Jantsch
Love begets faith.Faith begets courage.Courage begets strength.Strength begets positive thoughts. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
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Draw from the unbeatable courage and love of Christ--don't stop short; He didn't. -- Katy Kauffman
As ever, Morpurgo's warmth and humanity suffuse a story of courage, love and hope. -- Amanda Craig
Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time. -- Maya Angelou
Love tought me to cry. So come on courage, teach me to be shy. -- Damien Rice
For a leader, courage, love, and passion for service are the virtues of life. -- Debasish Mridha
Love is about finding courage inside of you that you didn't even know was there. -- Jennifer Flackett
Love opens us.Pain deepens us.Courage strengthens us.Joy enlightens us.Beauty renews us. -- Joyce Wycoff
I just love seeing people embrace freedom, faith, and courage in the face of enormous odds. -- Edwina Findley
Courage is the hallmark of spirituality. Courage comes when you love yourself for who you are. -- Amit Ray
Let your light shine. Be a source of strength and courage. Share your wisdom. Radiate love. -- Wilferd Peterson
The greatest act of courage is not falling in love But, despite everything, falling in love again. -- Robin Wayne Bailey
I love Joan Collins. She's a wonderful lady. She has such courage. She's such a good actress. -- Robert Wagner
Love sweetens pain; and when one loves God, one suffers for His sake with joy and courage. -- Brother Lawrence
What an old maid I'm getting to be. lacking the courage to be in love with death! -- Arthur Rimbaud
To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love. -- George Santayana
There is no act of love that is not an act of work or courage. No exceptions. -- M. Scott Peck
Vice never leads to virtue. Hate never promotes love. Cowardice never gives courage. Doubt never inspires faith. -- Thomas S. Monson
Perhaps people hate because it's more difficult to love. It also takes more courage to do the latter. -- Primadonna Angela
...Who could refrain, That had a heart to love, and in that heart Courage to make love known? -- William Shakespeare
Courage, love, faith . . . these areall muscles that grow in strength each time we push them to their limits. -- Jeremy Courtney
In every crisis, doubt or confusion, take the higher path - the path of compassion, courage, understanding and love. -- Amit Ray
Love is a risk. It always is. None of us is guaranteed a long life. But love takes courage. -- Amy Andrews
I did not pray for any relief, but I prayed for strength to suffer with courage, humility and love. -- Brother Lawrence
Courage is inseparable from love and leads to what may arguably be the noblest of all warrior virtues: selflessness. -- Steven Pressfield
I would love to be a Franciscan brother. Im just not sure I have the courage to do it. -- Rich Mullins
Only love and courage will make this world a safer place. Hatred and fear will make it more dangerous. -- Laurence Overmire
Love means the courage to expose yourself to the potential pains of being hurt, deeply hurt by someone you trust. -- Renita J. Weems
Have courage, be capable of loving.... Be happy in love. Be joyful in victory. Follow the dictates of your heart. -- Paulo Coelho
Let him who has courage in his mind and love in his heart come with me. I want none else. -- Swami Vivekananda
It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it. -- Oscar Wilde
There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge. -- Patrick Campbell, 3rd Baron Glenavy
Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love. -- Delmore Schwartz
It is only if you have the courage to follow your heart that you will succeed on the path of love. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge. -- Patrick Campbell, 3rd Baron Glenavy
What is revenge but courage to call in our honor's debts, and wisdom to convert others' self-love into our own protection? -- Edward Young
The word courage comes from the French word 'coeur', which means heart. True power proceeds not from force, but from love. -- Alan Cohen
Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors. -- Jean Baudrillard
Start to become active in what u love DOING. People admire action, courage&real happiness far more than they admire a size 2 -- Daphne Zuniga
Courage comes in different forms. There's strength--that's the muscle. But love's the heart. When you put them together, you can do anything. -- Nora Roberts
I you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it. -- John Irving
I observed a thousand acts of courage, compassion and love [as a POW] and I will always treasure that memory above all others. -- John McCain
You've got to figure out what it is you love - who you really are - and have the courage to do that. -- Oprah Winfrey
Do you have the courage for it? Do you have the love? If you have enough of one, you will develop the other. -- Dan Millman
Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration - courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and, above all, love of the truth. -- H. L. Mencken
We are for ever trying to make our weakness look like strength, our sentiment like love, our cowardice like courage, and so on. -- Swami Vivekananda
I think the greatest of all human virtues is loyalty. It embraces all the best of the human character: courage, faith, love and charity. -- Douglas Bader
To love is a brave thing. To be loved, braver still. But allowing yourself to love yourself? That takes the most courage of all. -- Debby Ryan
Her courage frightens and amazes me. It make me hopeful for her. Is that what you call love? Is that what you call hope? -- Rene Denfeld
The idea of a library full of books, the books full of knowledge, fills me with fear and love and courage and endless wonder. -- Elizabeth McCracken
I still believe that if we stand together with courage in our convictions and love for America, our best days are ahead of us. -- Hillary Clinton
The formula of life is simple. It is the formula of giving - giving courage, attention, peace, love and comfort to yourself and the society. -- Amit Ray

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