Quotes About Bravery

Perfect and bulletproof are seductive, but they don't exist in the human experience. We must walk in the arena, whatever it may be.

Oh, the audacity of authenticity. You're going to confuse, piss-off and terrify lots of people – including yourself.

Sometimes our first and greatest dare is asking for support.

I've never met a brave person who hasn't known disappointment, failure and even heartbreak.

Joseph Campbell's wisdom: "The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.

Choose courage over comfort.

The idea of "no regrets" doesn't mean living with courage, it means living without reflection. To live without regret is to believe we have nothing to learn, no amends to make, and no opportunity to be braver with our lives.

Wholehearted living is about engaging in our lives from a place of worthiness. It's about cultivating the courage, compassion, and connection to wake up in the morning and think, No matter what gets done and how much is left undone, I am enough. It's going to bed at night thinking, Yes, I am imperfect and vulnerable and sometimes afraid, but that doesn't change the truth that I am also brave and worthy of love and belonging.

vulnerability and love are the truest marks of courage.

You want to feel comfortable, so you avoid doing or saying the thing that will evoke fear and other difficult emotions. Avoidance will make you feel less vulnerable in the short run, but it will never make you less afraid.

Courage has a ripple effect. Every time we choose courage, we make everyone around us a litter better and the world a little braver. And our world could stand to be a little kinder and braver.

To brave the wilderness and become the wilderness we must learn how to trust ourselves and trust others.

the physics of vulnerability." It's pretty simple: If we are brave enough often enough, we will fall. Daring is not saying "I'm willing to risk failure." Daring is saying "I know I will eventually fail, and I'm still all in." I've never met a brave person who hasn't known disappointment, failure, even heartbreak.

Vulnerability is not winning or losing. It's having the courage to show up when you can't control the outcome.

Yes, we are totally exposed when we are vulnerable. Yes, we are in the torture chamber that we call uncertainty. And, yes, we're taking a huge emotional risk when we allow ourselves to be vulnerable. But there's no equation where taking risks, braving uncertainty, and opening ourselves up to emotional exposure equals weakness. MYTH

When we spend our lives waiting until we're perfect or bulletproof before we walk into the arena, we ultimately sacrifice relationships and opportunities that may not be recoverable, we squander our precious time, and we turn our backs on our gifts, those unique contributions that only we can make.

Every time we choose courage we make everyone around us a little better and the world a little braver. And our world could stand to be a little braver and a little kinder.

Choosing to live and love with our whole hearts is an act of defiance. You're going to confuse, piss off, and terrify lots of people—including yourself. One minute you'll pray that the transformation stops, and the next minute you'll pray that it never ends. You'll also wonder how you can feel so brave and so afraid at the same time. At least that's how I feel most of the time… brave, afraid, and very, very alive.

Evolution and incremental change is important and we need it, but we're desperate for real revolution and that requires a different type of courage and creativity.

Are we willing to show up and be seen when we can't control the outcome?

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Courage is as contagious as fear.

Thanks for the advice, but it never pays to run from a bully. That would only endanger whoever I chose to stay with.

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