Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage.

Courage is not the absence of despair it is rather the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

Courage is resistance to fear mastery of fear not absence of fear.

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.

Not longer loved or fostered by religion beauty is lifted from its face as a mask and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man.

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.