furious indifference...........................

 Courage is almost a contradiction in terms.  It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.  "He that will lose his life, the same shall save it," is not a piece of mysticism for saints and heroes.  It is a piece of everyday advice . . . A soldier surrounded by enemies, if he is to cut his way out, needs to combine a strong desire for living with a strange carelessness about dying.  He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape.  He must not merely wait for death, for then we will be a suicide, and will not escape.  He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it, he must desire life like water and yet drink death like wine.

-Gilbert Keith Chesterton