Variant: Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird
“Shouldn't you know what love's like, before you begin renouncin' it"
George Cooper”
Source: In the Hand of the Goddess
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John Green
(1977) American author and vlogger
John on a story he wrote when he was in elementary school Nov. 26th: Writing Advice (And Notes on Surnameless Tiffany) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Gf69J1Go98&feature=channel
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“You know I don't love any one but you. You shouldn't mind because some one else loved me.”
Source: A Farewell to Arms
“The light
Begin to bleed,
Begin to breathe,
Begin to speak.
D'you know what?
I love you better now.”
Kate Bush
(1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer
Song lyrics, Hounds of Love (1985), The Ninth Wave
Jiddu Krishnamurti
(1895–1986) Indian spiritual philosopher
Vol. XI, p. 288
Posthumous publications, The Collected Works
Context: We know only fragmentarily this extraordinary thing called life; we have never looked at sorrow, except through the screen of escapes; we have never seen the beauty, the immensity of death, and we know it only through fear and sadness. There can be understanding of life, and of the significance and beauty of death, only when the mind on the instant perceives “what is”. You know, sirs, although we differentiate them, love, death, and sorrow are all the same; because, surely, love, death, and sorrow are the unknowable. The moment you know love, you have ceased to love. Love is beyond time; it has no beginning and no end, whereas knowledge has; and when you say, “I know what love is”, you don’t. You know only a sensation, a stimulus. You know the reaction to love, but that reaction is not love. In the same way, you don’t know what death is. You know only the reactions to death, and you will discover the full depth and significance of death only when the reactions have ceased.
James McNeill Whistler
(1834–1903) American-born, British-based artist
Quoted by Don C. Seitz in Whistler Stories http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13973 (1913)
posthumous published
