Courage and difficult times:

 

Courage and difficult times:

TUS : Midlands Library ‘Positive living’ outreach: Bibliotherapy extracts /quotes 

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”

Winston Churchill

 “If you’re going through hell, keep going”

Winston Churchill

 

“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”

― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

 

“Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.”

William Shakespeare

 

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us and when we bring what lies within us.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

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

― Lao Tzu

 

“So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.”

The Holy Bible: Joshua 1:9; Isaiah 41:10)

 

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”

― E.E. Cummings

 

“Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?'

'That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him.”

― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

Galadriel: “Mithrandir... why the Halfling?” Gandalf: ..”.I don't know. Saruman believes it is only great power that can hold evil in check. But that is not what I have found. I've found it is the small things, everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keeps the darkness at bay. Simple acts of kindness and love. Why Bilbo Baggins? Perhaps it is because I am afraid... and he gives me courage.”

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.”

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

 “Wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo. “So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

” J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

 

“Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.”

 Helen Keller

 

“We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.”

Randy Pausch

 

“Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.”

The Talmud

 

“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”

 Haruki Murakami

 

“I will breathe. I will think of solutions. I will not let my worry control me. I will not let my stress level break me. I will simply breathe. And it will be okay. Because I don’t quit.”

Shayne McClendon

 

Kahlil Gibran on Good & Evil

“Of the good in you I can speak, but not of the evil.

For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?

Verily when good is hungry it seeks food even in dark caves, and when it thirsts it drinks even of dead waters.

You are good when you are one with yourself.

Yet when you are not one with yourself you are not evil.

For a divided house is not a den of thieves; it is only a divided house.

And a ship without rudder may wander aimlessly among perilous isles yet sink not to the bottom.”

From ‘The prophet’ by Kahlil Gibran

 

“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”

Khalil Gibran

 

Andy Dufresne: [in letter to Red] “Remember Red, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.”

The Shawshank Redemption