Courage To Love Quotes

• It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Love, Life, Inspiring

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (2009). “My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962”, p.36, Da Capo Press

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• Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

  Laozi

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that. And living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on Earth.

  Louise Erdrich

  Love, Life, Strength

  "The Painted Drum". Book by Louise Erdrich, www.npr.org. 2005.

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• It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Love, Inspirational, Pain

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (2009). “My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962”, p.36, Da Capo Press

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• 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.

  Maya Angelou

  Love, Inspirational, Inspiring

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• You have to have courage to love somebody. Because you risk everything. Everything.

  Maya Angelou

  Love, Courage, Loving Someone

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• The functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.

  Dean Koontz

  Compassion, Empathy, Friendship Love

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• There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved for the sake of something greater.

  Veronica Roth

  Courage, Giving Up, Bravery

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• Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

  Maya Angelou

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Dec 17, 2013

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• Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Courage, Heart

  William Shakespeare, Roma Gill (2004). “Macbeth”, p.35, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Courage is a greater virtue than love. At best, it takes courage to love.

  Paul Tillich

  Virtue, Greater

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• Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous; there's really nothing to lose.

  Jewel

  Courage, Greatest Love, Nothing To Lose

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• You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

  Maya Angelou

  Courage, Practice, Aries

  "Diversity : Leaders Not Labels" by Stedman Graham, (p. 224), 2006.

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• You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.

  Louise Erdrich

  Strength, Love You, Heart

  "The Painted Drum". Book by Louise Erdrich, www.npr.org. 2005.

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• You know what gives me the courage to keep on living? The courage to love myself a little? It's having a whole bunch of friends who really give a goddamn. When you share pain, there's less of it, and when you share joy, there's more of it.

  Spider Robinson

  Pain, Giving, Joy

  Spider Robinson (1981). “Time travelers strictly cash”

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• One of the greatest gifts you can give your husband is your own wholeness.

  Stormie Omartian

  Love, Marriage, Forgiveness

  Stormie Omartian (2014). “The Power of a Praying® Wife”, p.25, Harvest House Publishers

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• Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.

  Anthony Trollope

  Courage, Should Have, Suffering

  'The Bertrams' (1859) ch. 27

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• True love is love that causes us pain, that hurts, and yet brings us joy. That is why we must pray to God and ask Him to give us the courage to love

  Mother Teresa

  Hurt, Pain, Love Is

  Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.27, New World Library

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• People will never forget how you made them feel.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Maya Angelou (2014). “Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou”, p.37, Random House

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• Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Kings, Hate, Light

  "A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings".

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• Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.

  Maya Angelou

  Positive, Moving On, Sad

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• Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion, and empathy.

  Dean Koontz

  Love, Thinking, Compassion

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• Love without courage and wisdom is sentimentality, as with the ordinary church member. Courage without love and wisdom is foolhardiness, as with the ordinary soldier. Wisdom without love and courage is cowardice, as with the ordinary intellectual. But the one who has love, courage and wisdom moves the world.

  Ammon Hennacy

  Love, Wisdom, Moving

  Ammon Hennacy (2010). “The Book of Ammon”, p.149, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood. This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed.

  Terence McKenna

  Dream, Teacher, Commitment

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• You've got to figure out what it is you love - who you really are - and have the courage to do that.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Motivational, Dream, Inner Strength

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