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Courage

“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.
The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”
– Nelson Mandela

Tibet

“Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin,
but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”  
Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

Helsinki, Finland

“Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones;
and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
God is awake.” 

– Victor Hugo

Kolkata (Calcutta), India

“All happiness depends on courage and work.”
– Honoré de Balzac

Peshawar, Pakistan

“Courage is found in unlikely places.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

Kampala, Uganda

 

Vrindavan, Uttar Pradesh, India

 

Kashmir

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.”
– Mark Twain

Los Angeles, California, USA

 

New York City, New York, USA

“You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going.
What you need is to recognize the possibilities and
challenges offered by the present moment, and to

embrace them with courage, faith and hope.”  
– Thomas Merton

Los Angeles, California, USA

“Bran thought about it. ‘Can a man still be brave if he’s afraid?’
‘That is the only time a man can be brave,’ his father told him.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

Afghanistan

 

Hong Kong

“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage,
you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.”

― Maya Angelou

Lourdes, France

“Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the conquest of it.”
– William Danforth

Herat, Afghanistan

 

Kabul, Afghanistan

“Courage is not having the strength to go on;
it is going on when you don’t have the strength.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

Chitral Valley, Pakistan

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal:
it is the courage to continue that counts.”

― Winston S. Churchill

Batticaloa, Sri Lanka

 

Thailand

“What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?”
– Vincent van Gogh

Baluchistan, Pakistan
Kuwait

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
― Anaïs Nin

New York City, New York, USA

 

“Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon,
there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always
difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.
To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the
same courage that a soldier needs.
Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

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Family Portraits

The family is the nucleus of civilization.
– Will Durant

Gujarat, India

 

Lambari, Brazil

In family life, love is the oil that eases friction,
the cement that binds closer together, and
the music that brings harmony.
– Eva Burrows

Sahel region

Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family.
Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.

– Jane Howard

Kashmir

There is only one good-looking child in the world,
and every mother has it.
– Chinese Proverb

Skopje, Macedonia, Yugoslavia

You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you,
but at the same time you carry them with you
in your heart, your mind, your stomach,

because you do not just live in a world.
A world lives in you. 

– Frederick Buechner

Moscow, Russia

The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.  
–  George Santayana

Hudaydah, Yemen

 

Myanmar (Burma)

There is no better classroom
than the family table.
– Kaye Earle

Perugia, Umbria, Italy

 

Kham, Tibet

Our family dinner table was like Speakers’ Corner in London.  
We discussed, debated, argued, declaimed –
all of us at the same time.
– E. Thomson Earl

Paraguay

The family is link to our past, bridge to our future.
– Alex Haley

Indonesia

 

Baluchistan

The two things we can give our children are roots which firmly anchor them,
and wings which allow them to become independent.

Seoul, South Korea

 

Maimana, Afghanistan
Tiguent, Mauritania

What can you do to promote world peace?
Go home and love your family.
– Mother Teresa