Quotes About Courage

Ich hingegen finde, dass noch bei jedem Kummer etwas Schones ubrigbleibt. Wenn man das betrachtet, entdeckt man immer mehr Freude, un man wird wieder ausgeglichen. Und wer glucklich ist, wird auch andere glucklich machen. Wer Mut und Vertrauen hat, wird im Ungluck nicht untergehen!

He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery.

No amor e na guerra vale tudo.

Honestly, you needn't think it's easy to be the badly brought up central figure of a hypocritical family in hiding.

March 16, 1944 ...Kitty, Anne is crazy, but then these are crazy times and even crazier circumstances. March 17, 1944 Even though I'm only fourteen, I know what I want, I know who's right and who's wrong, I have my own opinions, ideas and principles, and though it may sound off coming from a teenager, I feel I'm more of a person than a child - I feel I'm completely independent of others.

I am young and strong and living a great adventure

Reichtum, Ansehen, alles kannst du verlieren, aber das Glück deines Herzens kann höchstens einmal verhüllt sein und wird dich doch immer aufs neue Glücklich machen, solange du lebst. Solange du ohne Furcht zum Himmel aufsehen kannst, solange weißt du, dass du reinen Herzens bist, und das Glück wird immer mit dir sein.

I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn

There's] something we should never forget; while others display their heroism in battle or against the Germans, our helpers prove theirs every day by their good spirits and affection.

Well, go on then, Abby; run along and let the nice man compromise you.

Remember that you own what happened to you. If your childhood was less than ideal, you may have been raised thinking that if you told the truth about what really went on in your family, a long bony white finger would emerge from a cloud and point to you, while a chilling voice thundered, We *told* you not to tell. But that was then. Just put down on paper everything you can remember now about your parents and siblings and relatives and neighbors, and we will deal with libel later on.

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.

Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.

Toni Morrison said, The function of freedom is to free someone else, and if you are no longer wracked or in bondage to a person or a way of life, tell your story. Risk freeing someone else. Not everyone will be glad that you did. Members of your family and other critics may wish you had kept your secrets. Oh, well, what are you going to do?

Sometimes this human stuff is slimy and pathetic...but better to feel it and talk about it and walk through it than to spend a lifetime being silently poisoned.

We write to expose the unexposed. Most human beings are dedicated to keeping that one door shut. But the writer's job is to see what's behind it, to see the bleak unspeakable stuff, and to turn the unspeakable into words - not just into any words but if we can, into rhythm and blues. You can't do this without discovering your own true voice, and you can't find your true voice and peer behind the door and report honestly and clearly to us if your parents are reading over your shoulder.

If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through, you must. Otherwise, you'll just be rearranging furniture in rooms you've already been in.

Try to write in a directly emotional way, instead of being too subtle or oblique. Don't be afraid of your material or your past. Be afraid of wasting any more time obsessing about how you look and how people see you. Be afraid of not getting your writing done.

We write to expose the unexposed. If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through, you must. The writer's job is to turn the unspeakable into words - not just into any words, but if we can, into rhythm and blues.

Courage is fear that has said its prayers.

Some people have a thick skin and you don't. Your heart is really open and that is going to cause pain, but that is an appropriate response to this world.

When you make friends with fear, it can't rule you.

So Rita and I decided that the most subversive, revolutionary thing I could do was to show up for my life and not be ashamed.

To participate requires self-discipline and trust and courage, because this business of becoming conscious, of being a writer, is ultimately about asking yourself, as my friend Dale puts it, How alive am I willing to be?