Courage Paradox. The greatest minds are not products of thinking, but miracles in feeling. The heart is the bridge between the animal and the divine. Man’s heart is the intersectional ‘core’. Courage gets man out of his head and loins, so his heart can do the greatest thinking.
Do you have the courage to bring forth the treasures that are hidden within you?
Elizabeth Gilbert • Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
courage, justice, and wisdom) is happiness, and it is our perceptions of things—rather than the things themselves—that cause most of our trouble.
Stephen Hanselman • The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
emotion and feeling seem to originate: the human heart.
Gregg Braden • The Divine Matrix: Bridging Time, Space, Miracles and Belief
Sometimes the greatest have the least self-confidence, because they know how immense is the responsibility and how small they feel in relation to it. Courage does not mean having no fear. It means having fear but overcoming it. If that is true of physical courage it is no less true of moral and spiritual courage.
Jonathan Sacks • Studies in Spirituality (Covenant & Conversation Book 9)
- Maya Angelou
"To be courageous is not necessarily to go anywhere or do anything, except to make conscious those things we already feel deeply and then to live through the unending vulnerabilities of those consequences."
—David Whyte