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“summer, after all, is a time when wonderful things can happen to quiet people. for those few months, youre not required to be who everyone thinks you are, and that cut-grass smell in the air and th...”
“This world demands the qualities of youth; not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for a...”
“Do anything, save to lie down and die!”
“Will stopped glaring at Gabriel, and turned to Tessa. He looked at her and his face softened: the traces of the wild, broken boy he had been vanished, replaced with the expression often worn by the...”
“My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself to the usual lot of women who bow their heads and become concubines.”
“Everyone who has ever taken a shower has had an idea. It's theperson who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does somethingabout it that makes a difference.”
“There is no one more courageous than the person who speaks with the courage of his convictions.”
“The liar was the hottest to defend his veracity, the coward his courage, the ill-bred his gentlemanliness, and the cad his honor”
“When you find your path, you must ignore fear. You need to have the courage to risk mistakes. But once you are on that road... run, run, run, and don't stop til you've reached its end.”
“That's what courage is. If she weren't scared, she wouldn't need courage in the first place." -Jo”
“Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a choice - if not whether, then how, they may endure.”
“Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre; remorse is the poison of life.”
“Inside me, there is an organ more important than my heart. Although you can't see it, I feel it going right through my head and down to my legs, and I know that it exists inside me. It's the one th...”
“Courage originally meant "To speak one's mind by telling all one's heart.”
“Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.”
“All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days . . .nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.”
“We ought to face our destiny with courage.”
“I lacked the courage to investigate the weaknesses of the wicked, because I discovered they are the same as the weaknesses of the saintly.”
“And only weaklings...who lack courage and the power to feel they're right when the whole world says they're wrong, ever lose.”
“We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.”
