Quotes About Courage

If anyone is so good that he or she should be spared, you can safely assume that person is in the line of fire. Fair is where the pony rides are.

Writing: shitty first drafts. Butt in chair. Just do it. You own everything that happened to you. You are going to feel like hell if you never write the stuff that is tugging on the sleeves in your heart–your stories, visions, memories, songs: your truth, your version of things, in your voice. That is really all you have to offer us, and it's why you were born

Love can bring people out of isolation, get them to take off the Halloween masks they wear, breathing through the slits.

This menagerie - it was part of my being repented - to show up places where I might have been afraid, like the zoo or a marriage.

She did it because she was desperate, and so she listened to her heart. In my experience, there is a lot to be said for desperation—not exactly a bright side, but something expressed in words for which "God" could be considered an acronym: gifts of desperation.

Rilke wrote: "I want to unfold. I don't want to stay folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie.

But he might give you the courage or the stamina to write lots and lots of terrible first drafts, and then you'd learn that good second drafts can spring from these, and you'd see that big sloppy imperfect messes have value.

We write to expose the unexposed. If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through, you must. Otherwise you'll be rearranging furniture in rooms you've already been in. 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 that bleak, unspeakable stuff, and to turn the unspeakable into words -- not just any words, but if we can, into rhythm and blues.

I never used to take my turn. I always gave my turn away. I helped others have a great turn. I must have had a clipboard by the time I was six, because by then I had a whole caseload of people to keep track of. After they had all gotten a turn, then maybe I could go, if there was time and it didn't bother anyone. Now I take my turn, as a radical act.

Rider to your mate be true Follow heart in deed and do All the best your strength can find So you will rest in heart and mind

And so we must arm ourselves with tongues of flame.

What has to be done can scarcely be termed heroic!" Master

you ride a winged horse, you'd better have a wide net when you fall. And that takes money!

I had the added assurance of knowing I was buffered against catching the disease that I nursed, so sometimes Macabir's praise of my courage on this count embarrassed me. Then a journeyman healer walked boldly into the camp bearing sufficient serum to inoculate everyone.

Then enter a program that gets me out of this wretched asshole of a midden system.

I can't save a boy from a burning building. Instead he must save me from the attempt; he must jump to earth.

Somewhere there is a man who is not afraid to live in a woman's hope

I began the piling of words, to dig myself out to dare myself

Somewhere a man answers courage with courage

When the heart is flooded with love there is no room in it for fear, for doubt, for hesitation.

It isn't for the moment you are stuck that you need courage, but for the long uphill climb back to sanity, faith and security.

It isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for the long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.

Why do progress and beauty have to be so opposed? ; 75 Also, as in war, the case, like a great bubbling cauldron of life itself, threw up both good and evil. Greed, madness, cruelty and indifference were countered by goodness, devotion, self-sacrifice, and courage. p 178

Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.