"Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow."

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Source : Twitter post from Jul 16, 2014

Dan Rather

#Courage Quotes #Cancer Quotes #Grief Quotes

“Some people only know how to copy others and some people are just subconsciously over influenced by what they hear rather than having a sound of their own.”
“This is what customers pay us for - to sweat all these details so it's easy and pleasant for them to use our computers. We're supposed to be really good at this. That doesn't mean we don't listen to customers, but it's hard for them to tell you what they want when they've never seen anything remotely like it.”
“Those of us who obsess over every word and action are constantly recalling past events, but that doesn't make them any less painful, nor does it help us transcend them. To write memoir, you have to not only recollect past events, you have to revisit them. You have to get back to the mental and emotional state you were in during those events.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Perhaps the highest goodness attainable is a life of service to all mankind. Such an ideal is supported in nearly every page in the Gospels-the parables, the sermons, and the countless acts of service by our Lord Himself. The ideal is not limited to any particular kind of service, nor a given quantity of service. The ideal is accepting life itself as a trust to be used in the welfare of mankind. It is a life that is glad for the chance to be of any help, an attitude that 'service is the rent we pay for our own room on earth.' (Lord Halifax)”
“Nostalgia often leads to idle speculation.”
“The top players in every field think differently when all the marbles are on the line. Great performers focus on what they are doing, and nothing else...They let it happen, let it go. They couldn't care less about the results.”
“War is, after all, the universal perversion ... war stories, the ***** of war.”

Source : 'The Custard Boys' (1960) ch. 13
“Pain is no longer pain when it is past.”

Source : Margaret Junkin Preston (1870). “Old Song and New”, p.260

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