"Courage cannot be left like bones in a bag. It must be brought out and shown the light again and again, growing stronger each time. If you think it will keep for the times you need it, you are wrong. It is like any other part of your strength. If you ignore it, the bag will be empty when you need it most."

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Source : Conn Iggulden (2013). “Conqueror: The Complete 5-Book Collection”, p.78, HarperCollins UK

Conn Iggulden

#Thinking Quotes #Light Quotes #Stronger Quotes

“Then is Love blest, when from the cup of the body he drinks the wine of the soul.”
“Young actors are serious about their work and don't take any time out from it. I'm very serious about my work; there are probably only two films I've done where I had a really good time.”
“Jamie enjoyed solitude, but loneliness was a constant ache.”
“I just know that right now, we want to be proud. For once. We want to take the struggle and rise above it. We want to frame it, live it, survive it. We want to put it in our mouths and taste it and never forget it, because it makes us strong.”
“How deceitful hope may be, yet she carries us on pleasantly to the end of life.”
“I always worried I'd forget my lines or say the wrong words or the audience would laugh in the wrong places.”

Source : Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1973). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”
“You know they invented wheelbarrows to teach FAA inspectors to walk on their hind legs.”
“People keep framing this as a religious freedom issue, but there's a difference between practicing your religion - which everyone has the right to do - and rubbing your religion in people's faces as a triumphalist political statement, which is what's happening here.”

Source : YouTube Chanel "Pat Condell"/ "Bad Faith At Ground Zero", www.youtube.com. August 28, 2010.

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