Showing posts with label courage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label courage. Show all posts

Thursday, September 23, 2010

Famous Last Words

These, then, are my last words to you: Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create that fact. – William James, Is Life Worth Living


We'll Meet Again - Johnny Cash

Say We'll Meet Again - Lindsey Buckingham
Just say we'll meet again
When the sunset spell is gone in the wind
Please say we'll meet again
Everyone sees a tear in the seam
But talks about the weather
Everyone pays a price for these dreams
So why not dream these dreams together

Just say we'll meet again
When the sunset spell is gone in the wind
Please say we'll meet again

That was a dream, that was a time
But nothing lasts forever
Sooner or later we all must go blind
But we can dream these dreams together

Just say we'll meet again
When the sunset spell is gone in the wind
Please say we'll meet again

Thursday, August 12, 2010

If you never try, you'll never know what you're worth

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow. – Mary Ann Radmacher

When you try your best, but you don't succeed
When you get what you want, but not what you need
But if you never try you'll never know
Just what you're worth

Monday, August 9, 2010

I ain't afraid of nuthin'. Nothin'


Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live. – Dorothy Thompson


Saturday, July 10, 2010

You got the Power!

All serious daring starts from within. - Eudora Welty

Sunday, May 30, 2010

Courage - You've got it in you


Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that there is always tomorrow. – Dorothy Thompson

Monday, May 24, 2010

Continue to Play - It could save your humanity


Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat. – Ralph Ellison


Friday, April 23, 2010

What are you waiting for? Jump.


You've been walking in circles, searching. Don't drink by the water's edge. Throw yourself in. Become the water. Only then will your thirst end. - Jeanette Berson



Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Nothing's gonna change my world...

You just need to be a flea against injustice. Enough committed fleas biting strategically can make even the biggest dog uncomfortable and transform even the biggest nation. – Marian Wright Edelman

Saturday, April 3, 2010

Facing yourself (but really we don't know how it will end)

You can gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face... You must do the thing which you think you cannot do. - Eleanor Roosevelt





 


Hold your grandmother's Bible to your breast.
Gonna put it to the test.
You want it to be blessed.
And in your heart,
You know it to be true,
You know what you gotta do.
They all depend on you.
And you already know.
Yeah, you already know how this will end.

There is no escape,
From the slave-catchers' songs.
For all of the loved ones gone.
Forever's not so long.
And in your soul,
They poked a million holes.
But you never lettem show.
C'mon it's time to go.

And
You
Already know.
Yeah, you already know
How this will end.

Now you've seen his face.
And you know that there's a place,
In the sun,
For all that you've done,
For you and your children.
No longer shall you need.
You always wanted to believe,
Just ask and you'll receive,
Beyond your wildest dreams.

And
You
Already know.
Yeah, you already know
How this will end.

You already know (You already know)
You already know (you already know)
You already love will end.

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Tiny Steps


Even a little progress is freedom from fear. – Bhagavad Gita



 

And love is not the easy thing
The only baggage you can bring...
And love is not the easy thing...
The only baggage you can bring
Is all that you can't leave behind

And if the darkness is to keep us apart
And if the daylight feels like it's a long way off
And if your glass heart should crack
And for a second you turn back
Oh no, be strong

Walk on, walk on
What you got, they can't steal it
No they can't even feel it
Walk on, walk on
Stay safe tonight...

You're packing a suitcase for a place none of us has been
A place that has to be believed to be seen
You could have flown away
A singing bird in an open cage
Who will only fly, only fly for freedom

Walk on, walk on
What you got they can't deny it
Can't sell it or buy it
Walk on, walk on
Stay safe tonight

And I know it aches
And your heart it breaks
And you can only take so much
Walk on, walk on

Home...hard to know what it is if you never had one
Home...I can't say where it is but I know I'm going home
That's where the heart is

I know it aches
How your heart it breaks
And you can only take so much
Walk on, walk on

Leave it behind
You've got to leave it behind
All that you fashion
All that you make
All that you build
All that you break
All that you measure
All that you steal
All this you can leave behind
All that you reason
All that you sense
All that you speak
All you dress up
All that you scheme... 

Friday, March 12, 2010

Don't let your days go by

And you may ask yourself
How do I work this?
And you may ask yourself
Where is that large automobile?
And you may tell yourself
This is not my beautiful house!
And you may tell yourself
This is not my beautiful wife!

Letting the days go by/let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by/water flowing underground
Into the blue again/after the money's gone
Once in a lifetime/water flowing underground.

Same as it ever was...Same as it ever was...



- David Byrne, Talking Heads

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Share your extraordinary life

When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself. – Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Monday, March 1, 2010

Be your own Truth


Be a lamp unto your self. Be your own confidence.  Hold to the truth within yourself as to the only Truth. - Buddha



Sunday, February 7, 2010

CHARGE!!!!

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have. - Norman Vincent Peale

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Exploring Your Life


Like all explorers, we are drawn to discover what's out there without knowing yet if we have the courage to face it. – Pema Chodron









Monday, January 18, 2010

Where Does Your Path Go?


Who’s to say where the wind will take you
Who’s to know what it is will break you
I don’t know which way the will blow
Who’s to know when the time has come around
Don’t wanna see you cry
I know that this is not goodbye – U2, Kite

Song - Kite