"Braving obstacles and hardships is braver than..." - Quote by Khalil Gibran
Braving obstacles and hardships is braver than retreat to tranquility.
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“Never regret thy fall, O Icarus of the fearless flight For the greatest tragedy of them all Is never to feel the burning light.”
“Brave soldier, never fear. Even though your death is near.”
“What Uncle Leo XIII never suspected was that his nephew's courage did not come from the need to survive or from a brute indifference inherited from his father, but from a driving need for love, which no obstacle in this world or the next would ever break.”
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“It is our enemies who provide us with the challenge we need to develop the qualities of tolerance, patience and compassion.”
“Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job.”
“Disastrous would have been the result if a fire or a death had suddenly demanded something heroic of human nature, but tragedies come in the hungry hours.”