Quotes About Courage

It is because they possess this courage, on the other hand, that many psychoanalytic patients, even at the outset of therapy and contrary to their stereotypical image, are people who are basically much stronger and healthier than average.

wise people learn not to dread but actually to welcome problems and actually to welcome the pain of problems.

One measure—and perhaps the best measure—of a person's greatness is the capacity for suffering.

Love will break us all: there are no exceptions. So why try to avoid it? There is no use in an unlived life. Best to let it in. Regret nothing, and when the time comes: shatter, shatter into glorious pieces.   --Ereseya Observations from the End of a Life

It takes a lot of courage to be happy.

Quem escapa do perigo vive a vida com outra intensidade.

Colombo não o teve maior, descobrindo a América, e perdoai a banalidade em favor do cabimento; com efeito, há em cada adolescente um mundo encoberto, um almirante e um sol de outubro.

A coragem de muita gente não tem outra explicação. Não é sempre por valentia que os homens são valentes, diz La Rochefoucauld.

Não nos dispersaremos. Se quereis os nossos cadáveres, podeis tomá-los; mas só os cadáveres; não levareis a nossa honra, o nosso crédito, os nossos direitos, e com eles a salvação de Itaguaí.

O medo? O medo é um preconceito dos nervos. E um preconceito desfaz-se; basta a simples reflexão.

Fortune is an impetuous thing that tends to favor the audacious

Sometimes we have to be left on our own to discover the uniqueness and strength that is ours.

It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent

I love, therefore I am vulnerable.

Only a fool is not afraid.

Euripedes. Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.

Meg, don't you think you'd make a better adjustment to life if you faced facts? I do face facts, Meg said. They're lots easier to face than people, I can tell you.

Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.

Itt iss Eevill… What is going to happen? Wee wwill cconnttinnue tto ffightt!… And we're not alone, you know, children, came Mrs.Whatsit, the comforter. …some of the best fighters have come from your own planet… Who have our fighters been? Calvin asked. Oh, you must know them, dear, Mrs.Whatsit said. Mrs.Who's spectacles shone out at them triumphantly. And the light shineth in the darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

To love is to be vulnerable; and it is only in vulnerability and risk—not safety and security—that we overcome darkness.

when I'm mad I don't have room to be scared.

If we are not willing to fail we will never accomplish anything. All creative acts involve the risk of failure.

Stay angry, little Meg," Mrs Whatsit whispered. "You will need all your anger now.

If we are to be aware of life while we are living it, we must have the courage to relinquish our hard-earned control of ourselves.