Courage Quote by George Santayana

The world is sweet in the heart, and green to the eye; and verily God hath brought you, after those who went before you:…

— Muhammad

“in time I came to see that of the many kinds of wilderness, the human heart can be the bleakest and the most hostile.…

— Dean Koontz

“It is precisely its unorthodox touches—its intimation of the idea of a personal god, its flashes of vulnerability and pain, its unwavering commitment to…

— Marcus Aurelius

“Every day I see or hear something that more or less kills me with delight, that leaves me like a needle in the haystack…

— Mary Oliver

This poor world, the object of so much insane attachment, we are about to leave; it is but misery, vanity, and folly; a phantom--the…

— Francois Fenelon

“The tension of the soul in unhappiness, which cultivates its strength; its horror at the sight of the great destruction; its inventiveness and bravery…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things…

— George Eliot

“When weary with the long day’s care, And earthly change from pain to pain, And lost, and ready to despair, Thy kind voice calls…

— Emily Brontë

“In discourse more sweet (For Eloquence the Soul, Song charms the Sense) Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and…

— John Milton

“Allah has names of Beauty: the Compassionate, the Merciful, the Gentle, and many others. But He also has Names of Rigour: the Overwhelming, the…

— Abdal Hakim Murad

And light is mingled with the gloom, And joy with grief; Divinest compensations come, Through thorns of judgment mercies bloom In sweet relief.

— John Greenleaf Whittier

“There is something profoundly cynical, my friends, in the notion of paradise after death. The lure is evasion. The promise is excusative. One need…

— Steven Erikson