Courage

“..wherever you are, you find the sun, a blade of grass, the spirals of the dragonfly. Courage consists of staying at home, close to nature, which could not care less about our disasters. Each grain of dust contains the soul of something marvellous. [Miró admonished art-critic w:Georges Duthuit ]”

“The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.”

“Lautrec was still satisfying his rather classical art-teacher Cormon in Paris. The unreal conventions of Cormon imposed and discouraged him, according to Henri Perruchot”

“For not by numbers of men, nor by measure of body, but by valor of soul is war to be decided.”

“Optimism is true moral courage.”

“To have courage for whatever comes in life — everything lies in that.”

““Optimism is true moral courage,” Shackleton said, a conviction he practiced daily as he whiled away his hours, always displaying his own towering “moral courage ” in the midst of his crew.”