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“It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.”
“I nodded, pretending to be a hundred times more courageous than I felt.But that was the thing about courage. Sometimes you had to fake it to feel it.”
“Courage isn't absenct of fear, it is the awareness that something else is important”
“Don't try to understand life. Live it! Don't try to understand love. Move into love. Then you will know - and all that knowing will come out of your experiencing. The more you know, the more you kn...”
“You're gutless. It's how you were made. And that's not such a bad thing because your saving grace is that you've never lied to yourself about it. Not about that. Nothing wrong with cowardice as lon...”
“Do," said Louisa finally, "whatever you can't not do.”
“Courage is being the only only one who knows how terrified you are.”
“It takes a great deal of courage to stand alone even if you believe in something very strongly.”
“Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone.”
“Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.”
“One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.”
“I had to cease to mourn what could never be and make the most of what was possible. And I would begin doing that by trying to mend the hurts of the past.”
“Playing the part of a charitable soul was only for those who were afraid of taking a stand in life. It is always far easier to have faith in your own goodness than to confront others and fight for ...”
“Pride is holding your head up when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it.”
“Courage cannot be left like bones in a bag. It must be brought out and shown the light again and again, growing stronger each time. If you think it will keep for the times you need it, you are wron...”
“Courage is like love, it must have hope for nourishment.”
“Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.”
“Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high, look it quarely in the eye and say, 'I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.”
“To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.”
“But there were worse things than disappointment, and I'd lived through several of them already.”
