Bravery Quote by Pema Chodron

Lean into the sharp points and fully experience them. The essence of bravery is being without self-deception. Wisdom is inherent in (understanding) emotions.

— Pema Chodron

I try not to compare myself to the character. Mulan makes it happen - not through big drama, but through little decisions and bravery…

— Liu Yifei

Meditation is not a matter of trying to achieve ecstasy, spiritual bliss, or tranquillity, nor is it attempting to become a better person. It…

— Pema Chodron

We believe if young people felt empowered to make a difference and experienced the bravery of self-confidence and of knowing they can achieve great…

— Cynthia Germanotta

In recent years we have seen a great deal of bravery and self-sacrifice, but civil courage hardly anywhere, even among ourselves.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“There had been a time when I owned my life and now I felt like I was coming around to myself again. It's like…

— Benilde Little

The English language has 112 words for deception, according to one count, each with a different shade of meaning: collusion, fakery, malingering, self-deception, confabulation,…

— Robin Marantz Henig

People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be, until they have learned to seek…

— Vladimir Lenin

I think that there is an ongoing conspiracy in the philosophical community, an organized form of self-deception, as in a cult, to simply all…

— Thomas Metzinger

I worry about anthropomorphism as a form of self-deception. (The Christian religion is an anthropomorphic account of the universe.)

— Anonymous

What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.

— George Eliot

The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.

— Friedrich Nietzsche