About courage...

[fosforito]

Hi people,

as I´m in kinda weird mood today and I just wanted to share sth. with you I got today when I had to buy a real BIIIGG book for anatomy class on university (paid 100 euro for that. )..

...and this was sth. that cheered me up a bit.

It was a book-mark I got from the staff in the library:

First the text in German and also the translation

MUT
bedeutet nicht, keine Angst zu haben;
es ist die Entscheidung, daß etwas anderes wichtiger
ist, als die Angst.


COURAGE
doesn´t mean not to be afraid;
it means to make the deciision that something is more important than to be afraid.



I think that´s true and for those of you and also myself being in a weird/difficult situation, maybe afraid of what will happen in the future or sth. like that, having this in mind could help a bit...

Alex

[peaches]

that's one good bookmark ...that's a really good saying...it actually does apply to me right now...thanks for sharing

[malle]

Alex it's great

It took me long time to understand, that people aren't necessarily able to do things, that I'm afraid of, because they are without fear. Sometimes it's because they conquer their fear. I try to learn from that.

[Deleted]

I like it - thanx - here's another:

"Courage isn't always the lion's roar. It is sometimes the heart, at the end of the day, saying "I will try again tomorrow"."

[avoca]

wow

[Lisa Rippner]

That's really good! It's like this quote we had to respond to in English a few days back:

"Courage is resistance of fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear."

[fosforito]

great to hear you like it, thanx