I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable. 738
So much inspires me. People living their lives with courage, beauty of all kinds, nature in all its aspects, people I love and people I hardly know, and, of course, other poets. 953
There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge. 717
What I love about the East End is that there’s a great perseverance, determination and courage. What I dislike about it is that there is sometimes a celebration of ignorance. 1.27K
It may not be the most popular but there is a place for it. I think about the kind of music I love, acoustic, melodic, and I guess it kind of took a bit of courage on my part to think I could be one of those songwriters. 676
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. 1.75K
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. 2.4K
Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love. 721
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. 1.61K
Love makes a subtle man out of a crude one, it gives eloquence to the mute, it gives courage the cowardly and makes the idle quick and sharp. 685
Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors. 809
He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles. 971
Let’s drink to the spirit of gallantry and courage that made a strange Heaven out of unbelievable Hell, and let’s drink to the hope that one day this country of ours, which we love so much, will find dignity and greatness and peace again. 1.36K
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. 731
If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it. 2.61K
