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“You don’t know what your account balance of personal courage is until that situation presents itself where that check needs to be written and cashed”
“The strangest of our powersIs the courage to liveKnowing that we will die,Knowing nothing more”
“Sometimes the thing you think will fix everything ruins it instead. And sometimes what hurts you has to tear you apart before it makes you stronger.”
“Thank you for telling me fairy tales, but also for teaching me how to face the battle I'd need to win in real life.”
“Stand up for your beliefs, and be different.”
“All good things are borne from evil, just like good people. It’s very rare that someone does things purely out of the goodness of their heart. Most need something to fight against, something to dri...”
“Sometimes there are no words to help one's courage. Sometimes you just have to jump.”
“When shame becomes a management style, engagement dies. When failure is not an option we can forget about learning, creativity, and innovation .”
“Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. It is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kind...”
“Human nature defeats me sometimes, how greed and spite can lurk so divisively around the utmost courage and sacrifice.”
“It’s a small painful sort of courage which is at the root of every life, because injustice and cruelty is at the root of life. And the reason why I have only given my attention to the heroic or the...”
“they told her, “fear the reaper."she laughed to herself and muttered, 'baby, death ain’t nothing’ more than a quick fuck. a little bit of silence after he comes.”
“...he possessed for attractive form of courage: bravery of a nervous man. After all, any rash fool can be a hero if he sets no value on his life or hasn't the wit to appreciate the danger. But to u...”
“Letty's first false step was here: she said to herself _I can not_, and did not. She lacked courage--a want in her case not much to be wondered at, but much to be deplored, for courage of the true ...”
“Sometimes having courage means the hardest tasks fall onto your shoulders, and those leave the biggest scars.”
“Inwardly, though, she was blown empty by a giant breath, and while they stood waiting for Mr. Henshaw to tie up the Clara she knew that she would never be the same poor, ignorant woman of an hour a...”
“[L]ife is more than just steering a course around pain.”
“You didn’t find strength when you couldn’t live without it. You found it when you had someone or something you loved so much that it forced you to stretch the edges of yourself further than you tho...”
“Timing can be everything and wisdom requires the patience to wait as well as the courage to leap when the time becomes right.”
“The word 'heresy' not only means no longer being wrong; it practically means being clear-headed and courageous. The word 'orthodoxy' not only no longer means being right; it practically means being...”
